Shauna Pearson

You pay attention to certain things, but not everything.

And it affects us in our careers.

And so when you're going through your life like this and you don't know why, that's the big piece, is you don't know what's going on.

You don't know you have ADHD.

You believe that there's something wrong with you.

And you believe that

And you don't know what it is.

And you're like on a different frequency is everyone around you at the same time.

Right.

So you're missing things.

People are like talking over there and you're like hearing it over here.

don't know if that makes sense but i hope it does you don't feel great about yourself and you start to worry so then we go to our doctor and we tell or a specialist and we'll tell them what's going on with us and the immediate response is usually to give a woman a self-assessment for anxiety or depression and so when we answer the the questions on those self-assessments

it shows up that we have anxiety or depression when we don't because the symptoms are so overlapping almost all of the symptoms overlap and we're not automatically given an assessment for adhd

And so that's a big deal.

So now we're being misdiagnosed.

A lot of millions of women with ADHD have been diagnosed or misdiagnosed with depression.

And it's just missed because our symptoms are not as focused on executive function and organization because some of us are extremely well organized.

It's not the same kind of symptoms.

And so it gets missed.

It gets missed a lot.