Dr Roberto Olivardia - ADHD and OCD (#333)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In episode 333 I chat with Dr Roberto Olivardia. Roberto is a Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He also maintains a private psychotherapy practice.
We discuss his therapy story, and personal story with ADHD, the school system and ADHD, what ADHD is, the comorbidity of OCD and ADHD together, how ADHD can feed into OCD, common OCD themes he sees with ADHD, how ADHD can undermine therapy for OCD if untreated, shame in ADHD and OCD, making accommodations for ADHD to enhance OCD treatment, medication for ADHD, why ADHD gets undiagnosed in OCD and more so in women, and much more. Hope it helps.
Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/roberto-olivardia-333
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The O. C.D do this for interviewing inspired therapists, |
| 0:15.2 | psychologists and people who have experienced O. C. Welcome to the O. C. |
| 0:20.3 | stories. And welcome to episode 333, and in this one I chat with Dr. Roberto Olavadia. |
| 0:28.3 | Roberto is a clinical psychologist and a clinical instructor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. |
| 0:33.6 | In this one we go to detail into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD |
| 0:39.9 | and also alongside OCD. |
| 0:43.0 | And in particular we talk about Roberto's therapy story, |
| 0:46.0 | his personal story with ADHD, the school system and ADHD, |
| 0:50.6 | what ADHD is, the comorbidity of oced and ADHD together how ADHD can feed into |
| 0:58.0 | ocidy common ocidy themes he sees with ADHD how ADHD can undermine therapy for OCD if untreated, shame in ADHD and |
| 1:08.1 | OCD, making accommodations for ADHD to enhance OCD treatment, medication for ADHD, why ADHD gets |
| 1:16.6 | undiagnosed in a CD and more so in women and much more. Really enjoyed this one |
| 1:22.2 | I personally learned a lot and hope you guys do too. |
| 1:26.5 | And thank you to NOCD for supporting the podcast. NOCD offers affordable, effective and convenient |
| 1:32.1 | therapy available in the US and outside the US. |
| 1:36.2 | To find out more about an O. C.D. their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance |
| 1:40.3 | or to download their free app, head over to go dot treat my OCD.com |
| 1:45.2 | forward slash the OCD stories or the link will be in the episode description. |
| 1:49.4 | So thank you as always to you guys for listening I deeply appreciate it and of course thank you to Roberto for his time. |
| 1:55.0 | How about for ever do, here he is. |
| 1:58.0 | Welcome to the show Roberto. |
| 2:00.0 | Oh, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me. |
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