ADHD and Women: Mental Health Matters

Women with ADHD: No More Suffering in Silence

Research shows that ADHD exacts a greater toll on women than it does on men. Clinicians need a...

In this stirring and honest essay, a teen girl shares her story of reckoning and recovery, explains...

“Masking is a survival strategy that neurodivergent individuals use to navigate and thrive in a...

Women with hyperactive ADHD experience intense symptoms of racing thoughts, unfocused energy, and...

Physical health conditions like migraines, diabetes, and arthritis are particularly difficult to...

If your mom has ADHD, then maybe your childhood was teeming with creativity, clutter, energy,...

ADHD and emotional withdrawal — pulling away from friends, strangers, and loved ones alike — often...

“I 100% schedule my life around my cycle,” said Misha, an ADDitude reader. “I try to do as much as I...

With the CDC reporting rates of depression, trauma, and bullying at an all-time high for teen girls,...

“I dated loser after loser, unavailable men, dangerous men… My self-esteem was garbage, and it was...

As estrogen and testosterone levels rise and fall through each stage of life, ADHD symptoms swing...

Does taking a stimulant medication during pregnancy increase the risk for adverse outcomes — for the...

"I wondered why my daughter’s diagnosis had been so hard to arrive at and why it had taken so long,...

This Women's Health Month, ADDitude is confronting an epidemic of misdiagnosis, lack of treatment,...

In first-of-its-kind research published by ADDitude, more than 2,700 women and men with ADHD reported...