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Do I have anxiety disorder, OCD and ADHD?

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Thirty to 50 percent of individuals with ADHD also have a learning disability, difficulty regulating emotions (anxiety, mood disorder), anger, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and/or a tic disorder. ... Here is what you need to know about ADHD and OCD, including symptoms, so you can begin to differentiate the two. read more

In fact, about 30 to 40 percent of people with ADHD have an anxiety disorder, which includes “obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, social anxiety and panic disorder,” according to Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. read more

OCD and Anxiety. In the DSM-IV, OCD and Anxiety appeared together in the chapter on anxiety disorders. The manual treated OCD as a sub-type of anxiety disorder. The recently updated DSM, Fifth Edition, treats obsessive compulsive disorder as a condition separate from anxiety, giving it a chapter of its own. read more

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