"Girls and Women with ADHD: Unique Risks, Crippling Stigma" [Video Replay & Podcast #235]
In this hour long webinar on-demand, learn the truth about ADHD in girls and women, with Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D.
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I want to thank Dr. Hinshaw and ADDitude magazine for this webinar-I learned so much about myself. As a woman who wasn’t diagnosed till 23 (and didn’t accept diagnosis till 37) so many patterns of behaviour and experience resonated with me: internalisation, substance abuse, executive functioning, peer rejection, suicidal ideation, non-suicidal self injury…truly, it was as if they had studied my life. This knowledge will help me accept myself for what I am instead of the raging hatred I typically feel for myself. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to listen to Dr. Hinshaw.
What is your take or knowledge on women often misdiagnosed or less effectively treated (under medicated-missing window of effectiveness) due to women learning to mask their symptoms more efficiently than men?
Can you give some examples of this masking symptoms? And how is that different than coping strategies? What can women or doctors due to avoid this pitfall in treatment/diagnosis?
For upcoming webinar on “Girls and Women with ADHD: Unique Risks, Crippling Stigma”: how often do you see girls with the combined-type of ADHD? It seems more often the diagnosis is for Inattentive type, but my daughter has combined-type, which I have said for years has been much more difficult because it’s more often the boys with that type. She dealt with teachers who I really believe just thought she was being a *itch and difficult, with a parent who was just making excuses for her. We have learned that her anxiety from ADHD manifests as anger, which contributed to her issues at school.