ADD - ADHD:Women suffers in silence

http://adhd-npf.com/adhd-history/
ADHD:Girls and women suffers in silence, partly because the diagnosis ADHD from the beginning was made for young boys.

Kvinnor och flickor lider i tysthet. Diagnosen är från början gjord för unga pojkar.

http://adhd-npf.com/vad-ar-add/

Men flickors problematik tenderar också att bli bedömd som social medan pojkar tenderar att bedömas som medicinska problem. Snacka om cementerat könsrollstänkande. Att flickor i högre grad än pojkar dessutom inte är lika utåtagerande verkar också inverka på hur fenomenet ses och bedöms. Flickor verkar oftare än pojkar sakna en utåtriktad hyperaktivitet och har med andra ord oftare ADD.

http://adhd-npf.com/vad-ar-add-adhd/

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[illflywithyounow]

Friendship is really important when dealing with mental health issues. Try to find people you can relate to and who can understand your problems can really help you. At least it has helped me : ) I suggest you join one of all the forums or websites like Mapofmates.

[christianbeatz]

I went to a psychiatrist to see if I had ADHD ... the doc said that I seem to have the sympostoms tho you can't diagnose someone with ADHD at a later age... BS:(

[whiff1962]

It is so often the case, certainly as pertains to so-called mentally ill individuals, that it is family, friends and employers who suffer. This notion, that the mentally ill and disordered, in the millions, "suffer in silence", is a falsehood but strategically useful for the MH profession's push to publicize and politicize so much in the way of problems in living as "disease" states. After all, how does one come to be labeled and "treated" for mental illness, if one is silent?