Medication, Adjustment to the Diagnosis, Psychotherapy, Skills, Community
These are the areas that need to be addressed when you receive a diagnosis of ADHD:
MEDICATION
When doctors give us a diagnosis, they usually prescribe a treatment as well - usually medications. Seldom do they educate us about the diagnosis.
While the condition may be the same, the experience may be different for women and call for different responses in treatment.
Girls and women meet the same criteria for an ADHD diagnosis; however, women may have different experiences than boys or men.
Women are more likely to have ADHD, inattentive type, while boys and men often have ADHD, with hyperactivity.
You can find a lot of information about ADHD, and it can be confusing.
Is it a fad? Is it real?
Do adults have ADHD or just kids?
How do I know if I have it?
They say you have to have had it in childhood, but what if you weren’t diagnosed with it then?
Why are so many adults, especially women, getting diagnosed later in life?
This brief summary will address these questions and concerns.
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