224 Can OCD Overlap With ADHD? with Guest Expert Kimberley Quinlan

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

I’m very pleased to be joined by Kimberley Quinlan in this episode. Kimberley is a licensed marriage and family therapist, specializing in anxiety, OCD and related disorders. Some of you with ADHD can identify with having additional neurodivergent diagnoses, such as OCD, and you may have experienced some confusion in differentiating between the two.

As children, it was hard enough being diagnosed with ADHD and having a full understanding of what it meant for ourselves and for our parents. Now add in other disorders, and you can imagine how difficult and frustrating it can be for those who have been misdiagnosed, misunderstood and overlooked.

I myself have a child who’s been diagnosed with OCD and ADHD, with the former likely causing the latter. I’m grateful to Kimberley for allowing me to share a bit of my own regrets as a parent coming to a good place of understanding my child in order to get him the support he needed.

There are so many great takeaways from this episode. But the biggest ones I’m walking away with are that validation and reassurance are everything. If you’ve been considering an evaluation for yourself or a loved one, please look into it. It’s a vulnerable process, but intaking the right information can be so powerful.

You can find Kimberley at kimberleyquinlan-lmft.com. If you are looking for some support as an adult with ADHD, come join my group coaching program FOCUSED, where we lift each other up and learn from our collective neurodivergent journeys.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and
0:11.2	coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:13.5	I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.
0:17.5	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges
0:21.1	of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:34.0	Hey what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have 8 HD
0:41.5	podcast. I am medicated, I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.
0:48.4	Today we're going to be talking about all things OCD and I am really looking forward to it because I know there's a big overlap between
0:56.0	ADHD and obsessive compulsive disorder. These two conditions can be co-occurring and they share a lot of similarities. So I've been
1:04.7	wanting for a while to bring an expert on to help us suss out the details and I
1:09.2	have done just that. I am so pleased to introduce you today to Kimberly Quinlan who is a licensed marriage and
1:16.4	family therapist and has a private practice in Calabassas, California, specializing in, wait for it, it's going to be great, anxiety, O. C. D, and related disorders and eating disorders. I mean, I am so, so grateful for you being here because this is what we need. I have so many questions
1:37.6	about OCD and I will be bringing in a lot of ADHD stuff but the overlap between
1:44.4	OCD anxiety depression eating disorders all of it I think so many of us ADHD years
1:50.3	relate hard core to this kind of like co-occurring struggle and so thank you
1:57.4	Kimberly for being here I really appreciate it. Thank you for having me on
2:01.7	Ed truly.
2:03.0	So let's just like start off with the bang.
2:06.0	Tell me a little bit about yourself and about your practice.
2:10.0	What do you do?
2:11.0	Sure, so I specialize myself and my clinicians who work for me. We specialize in
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