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let's get started. Welcome, Dr. Roberto Alavardia to the Autism-A-D-H-D podcast.

Oh, thank you for having me.

Hi, I'm thrilled that you're here, and I'm going to introduce you really quick.

Dr. Roberto Alvardia is a clinical psychologist and lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He maintains

a private psychotherapy practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he specializes in the treatment

of ADHD, body dysmorphic disorder, OCD, and eating disorders. He is on the scientific

advisory board of attitude, as well as sitting on the professional

advisory boards of children and adults with ADHD. The ADHD Association and is a featured expert

for understood. So you're pretty busy. Yes, but I like it that way. I have ADHD, so that's, you know, it would be too boring if I had too much downtime.

Two ADHD people having a conversation.

We're going to say all this.

So today we're going to talk about OCD and ADHD.

And this is something I haven't covered before on the podcast.

And I know a lot of people have been asking for this information.

So I am thrilled to talk to you about it.

So first let's talk about this comorbidity, which is when ADHD and OCD occur together.

Yes.

I mean, I think first, it's always important that with ADHD, it's the rule rather than the

exception that there will be what we call a comorbid disorder or some other condition.

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