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Happy new year everybody,

I'm interested in hearing, if anybody knows, how common it is for an ADD/ADHD person to also have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and / or ODD (oppositiona defiant disorder). What do the statistics say, anybody?

My spouse was diagnosed with tourette at the age of 12, OCD at some later stage. I also found out, not so long ago, that my spouse had also at some time been diagnosed with ODD.  Only recenty (about 9 months ago) my spouse was diagnosed with ADHD.

Hello everyone,

  First i'd like to say this site is great and very helpful. My story is a long one and my situation very complicated. I'll shorten it as much as possible.

  I am 25 and my OCD/ADD wife is 29. We met on the internet in 2006. I left the US in 2008 for South America to marry her. We have been married for two and a half years. I have only known for about a year and a half that she has ADD. She refrained from telling me out of fear that I would treat her differently.

I just got married two months ago to a wonderful man who is caring and compassionate in many ways.

Hi All, hope we all have ADHD free days in 2010 at least at least symptom wise.................

Ok, first post, like always just bear with me I guess. I have been married for 5 years, 2 beautiful kids.....and well this was the first christmas I did not spend with my wife/kids.

I am 48 year old female on the verge of losing my second marriage.  Recently a friend of mine suggested that I maybe ADD.  She suggested several sites on-line that self test.  I tried several different sites over a two week period and all three I scored HIGH "92" with the recommendation to seek help for ADD.

Hello to you all,

I did discover this site about 5 weeks ago, just as I had decided I had had enough of life with my husband of 20 years......I could go on for ages about him & how I feel like I am a 'single mother of 5 children' instead of 'married with four' etc. etc.

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My ADD husband is required by insurance to have bloodwork done every year in accordance with his physical.  Because he has been changed to a new doctor both for primary care and for his ADD, the new doctor required new bloodwork & he added a special request to check for a Vitamin D deficiency (something apparently not part of the routine screening).  His Vitamin D is EXTREMELY depleted...so much so that we got a call that he is being rushed 2 Vitamin D prescriptions-- 1 enormous pill to be taken only 1x per week and another dosage to be taken daily.

Here's an odd question for the spouses: Have any of you "caught" some of your spouse's ADD behaviors?

When I first met my husband, I was self-sufficient, poised, on top of things, confident, organized, and capable. I wasn't perfect--there was (and is!) tons of room for improvement, and my stress level was pretty high--but I was doing well in my career, I wasn't frantic, I socialized often and successfully, etc.