Sasha Hamdani

PMDD is significantly more common in the ADHD population.

It sucks because you're in a situation where you're like, okay, well, my mood is already garbage around that time before my period.

But now I can't focus and I can't do the things I want to do.

And it's even harder for me to emotionally deal with it.

Like, that doesn't seem fair.

So that's another huge one.

And then the last one is quite literally just...

I'm not trying to get political here, or it's not even political, but there is a societal difference in expectations for females.

So females are expected to kind of toe the line and mask.

So what is acceptable for a boy to be doing in class is very unacceptable for a girl.

So the girl now learns to hide that behavior.

So then what happens is that this

High achieving, very capable student or child goes through life.

They are now getting applauded for masking their stuff.

And so when at times it becomes overwhelming and they can't, people are like, what's wrong with you?

Why are you so emotional?

What's happening?

Why are things falling apart?

Why are you breaking down at work?

It feels like such a huge shift in their baseline functioning.