I recently completed "100 Questions & Answers about ADHD in Women" by Dr. Patricia Quinn. It is a moving novel, filled with narratives, research stats, and insights on how otherwise girls show challenge and ADHD symptoms because of this. Yes, I am a guy, therefore I am only able to comprehend the struggle that is female up to a point. However, I hear stories from girls who reach out online through websites, my Twitter account, YouTube, and elsewhere. I often hear stories of disaster, misdiagnoses, melancholy resulting from delayed investigations, etc.

What Is The Reason?

Why females are generally more detached in regards to investigations and their ADHD symptoms? While research does indicate that ADHD affects more men than females, that doesn't mean there isn't a big group of women suffering from acute ADHD symptoms -- usually with very small (if any) support from others.

Gender roles play an enormous part in women going misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. In our society, girls are under tremendous pressure to be an entire host of stereotypical, and silent, tender, pretty, media-caused gender conventions. It is no wonder females with ADHD frequently cover their symptoms, attempting to fit in. Speaking excessively and easily distracted are possible red flags for ADHD, but they also are not "ladylike," so they're concealed. Other indications, including obsessional analyzing to get excellent scores, secret struggles with depression, stress and eating disorders, go undetected or are chalked up to other states. Those cues mesh with girls are expected to act for a lengthy time. Testing for ADHD is skewed to understand behaviours that are natural to lads.

You will find three coexisting states that appear to disproportionately impact girls with ADHD. All of us -- the guys who could not live without them as well as girls themselves -- should be willing and conscious to receive and/or give support when these issues are presented:

Eating Disorders

Such disorders in women with ADHD seems to be fairly common, due to internalizing the symptoms as an alternative to asking for help. Some females with ADHD and stress quit eating as a way of commanding a world they see as being from their management. By becoming fanatical with the eating patterns they attempt to recover control, which can readily lead to several ailments. Some girls eat to feel as they're deflected others forget to eat, then once they recall the meals they have missed overeat.

Stress

I was not surprised to read that Dr. Quinn also finds an important link between the two illnesses. In the end, our thoughts are usually active, preoccupied, enthusiastic, and hyper! That surely is not rocket science, but study offers much-needed credibility to such truths. Anxiety is led to by the absolute pressure of having a head like ours. What is worse is that for girls, stress is frequently written off raising multiple kids or due to your busy program. They can not crumble as easily as males do under the pressure of stress, so a diagnosis is more difficult to locate.

Depression

Nothing enhances when a physician treats a female for melancholy as an alternative to ADHD. The inherent symptoms all are not being dealt with, so the female will probably have a really difficult time in other places of life, which no anti-depression pill will mend. She can develop coping skills to carve out the niche in life to get by, but for many the melancholy analysis can not be constructive, or even fatal. The female is led to believe she is "healed" of the melancholy and then have other symptoms creeping up and sabotaging everything worked on so hard to repair.

We must keep this knowledge building. Countless lives actually depend on it. Females are suffering in silence, which simply will not do. ADHD impacts us all, and this can be an all-for one, one-for-all type of conflict. It is time to say "We Are with you, women."