🔴 Wrestling with ADHD and OCD | Health Anxiety | Narcissism in the Workplace | Rapture Fears

But this one's about, uh, OCD and ADHD.

I'll take a moment a- and address it 'cause I think it'd be helpful.

I have talked about ADHD in the past.

I will be doing teaching content, Lord willing, the creek don't rise on this subject because, uh, I do have a lot to say about it.

Do a lot from a pastoral perspective that I want to share with you.

But anyways, question goes, "Hope all is well.

I've been a more recent listener now to your content and started reading Exposing the Rejection Mindset.

Firstly, I want to express my gratitude for being such an abundant source of wisdom and healing for both my mental health journey and walk with Christ.

I deeply appreciate the live Q&As as well as the Bible studies you do.

I'm relatively newer in my journey with OCD scrupulosity, being officially diagnosed a little over six months ago at this point, and I've seen-- have since been making steady progress towards renewed thinking patterns." That's amazing.

In six months.

That's fantastic.

"So my struggle as of late involves working through distorted thoughts and learning to let thoughts pass while also dealing with ADHD." Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is what it stands for.

I, I'm not great with abbreviations.

It takes me a minute.

I g-- I turn into glitches, but I, I got that one pretty good.

[chuckles] "Heightened, uh, brain chatter and a hyperfixation on stimulating thoughts, worrying or not, can make being present very difficult.

Thoughts or real-life events that bring a certain level of uncertainty tend to pull me in and will fuel obsession with the compulsion to figure it all out, just right but never enough thinking in general.

This makes my brain hyperanalyze and quickly become overwhelmed, hindering my ability to stay grounded emotionally and discern distortion and compulsion from sober-minded present thinking.

I do take medication for AD- ADHD, which does help, but it can still be difficult at times.

My question to you is if you have any experience with ADHD and how it can play into OCD and any advice you may have in regarding to staying compassionate and being kind to myself as my fight or flight impulse tends to kick up when I'm in these moments.

Thanks." So the...

It is a, a comorbidity that people that have OCD, there's a-- there is a...

I don't know what the number is, but there is a decent rate, enough to be traced and tracked.

You can ask AI, and it'll give you a number of people who have OCD that also have ADHD.