Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD):
- A psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD):
- A syndrome, usually diagnosed in childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of impulsiveness, a short attention span, and often hyperactivity, and interfering especially with academic, occupational, and social performance.
Summary: A person with OCD will feel compulsions and direct all their attention on that until the task is complete. A person with ADD has trouble focusing on anything resulting in distraction.
What happens to a person that is beset by both OCD and ADD? How would those seemingly different conditions play out? Perhaps this poor soul would seek out large projects with which to obsess but ultimately lacks the focus to follow through?
Have a nipple good day.
- A psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD):
- A syndrome, usually diagnosed in childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of impulsiveness, a short attention span, and often hyperactivity, and interfering especially with academic, occupational, and social performance.
Summary: A person with OCD will feel compulsions and direct all their attention on that until the task is complete. A person with ADD has trouble focusing on anything resulting in distraction.
What happens to a person that is beset by both OCD and ADD? How would those seemingly different conditions play out? Perhaps this poor soul would seek out large projects with which to obsess but ultimately lacks the focus to follow through?
Have a nipple good day.
lotus:
I doubt you can have both at once. Or maybe they'd just jump from one weird obsessive tasks to the next. Like spend thirty seconds combing the fronds on their rugs, delinting their couches, and straightening everything in the house to a certain angle and just bounce back and forth between them.
ryah:
that's a really interesting quesOH MY GAWD IS THAT A BUTTERFLY!? *dances in circles*