Generic advice

I think for me at least, impulsion is like when I do something without thinking about it or the consequences of it (spontaneous) and compulsion is something I do deliberately to ease anxiety, but sometimes do it without realizing. A personal example is when I am at the store, and I am only supposed to buy things for dinner, but I buy a bunch of sweets on top of that stuff without thinking about it, because it makes me feel good in the moment, regardless of if it will cause me damage later on or not. Let’s say afterwards I start obsessing over getting diabetes because I had the intrusive thought that by buying all those sweets I will get diabetes, which would cause me a lot of anxiety. A compulsion would be like me researching diabetes for hours, making doctors appointments, checking my blood pressure, ruminating, asking my parents or family if they have diabetes to see if it’s genetic, checking the packaging to see how much sugar is in every sweet. Basically stuff that wastes my time but feels important to do, and feels like I am compelled to do, to make myself feel better.

A compulsion is something u feel like u need to do. Like tap something three times but that’s like easy to spot. Ruminating is also a compulsion. For example if u feel like u need to constantly go over a thought that would be a compulsion bc u feel like u have to do it, it has like a sense of urgency. I think it is possible for someone to have adhd and ocd if u have the symptoms idk how it’s scientifically possible but im sure it is. In my experience ocd presents itself as adhd for me bc most of my compulsions r invisible so it looks like im not paying attention. Or when my ocd is taking over and i end up neglecting my responsibilities it looks like procrastination