Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude magazine.

Hey everyone it's Susan Kaufman I'm here today for Attitude Magazine's ADHD

experts audio series. Welcome and thank you all for joining us. As many of you know quite well, ADHD is very often accompanied

by one or more additional disorders. In fact, in the last few months we have welcomed speakers

on a number of conditions that are frequently

diagnosed alongside ADHD. We've had speakers on depression on anxiety

disorders on bipolar disorders and today we are very pleased to welcome Dr. Roberto Olavardia who will talk about

OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and he will address such questions as what is OCD

how is it different from ADHD, why do doctors often miss

OCD in people with ADHD or vice versa and why is having both ADHD and OCD different from just having one or the other and

what does it mean for treatment? Dr. Olavardia is a clinical psychologist

and clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. He specializes in the treatment of ADHD,

of body dysmorphic disorders and obsessive compulsive disorders. He wrote a book on

various manifestations of body image problems in men and maintains a private psychotherapy

practice in Massachusetts. Dr. Olavardia is on our Attitude Scientific Advisory Board and we are very grateful to him for all of his contributions.

Thank you so much Dr. Alvardia for coming today and welcome.

Thank you very much for having me and this is a topic that I feel very passionately about is I treat a

number of people with both ADHD as well as OCD and people who have both. With

obsessive compulsive disorder there are a lot of different

misinterpretations of what we actually refer to. So we have two categories. We have

the obsessions and the compulsions. So by if sessions we're referring to recurrent

persistent thoughts, impulcer images that are seen as intrusive by individuals and

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