The Truth About Female ADHD, The Invisible Struggle (Leading Psychiatrist Explains)
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What still shocks Dr. Yath about ADHD?
We've let women down in both the diagnostic stage of ADHD but also in the support that we offer them.
How do ADHD symptoms manifest at different life stages?
We're looking in childhood for very clear symptoms of an impairment with hyperactivity or inattention. Girls are more likely to develop emotional maturity and make efforts to conform to social norms during their childhood.
What is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and how does it affect individuals with ADHD?
That invites itself for masking to start taking place. Dr. Yathramesh is an ADHD specialist psychiatrist with a unique twist. He's treated people with ADHD from ages 18 all the way to 100.
So, with regards to ADHD, he's seen it all.
With ADHD, people often gravitate to fast reward, fast feedback mechanisms in order to help cope and regulate your emotions. It could be alcohol, cannabis. cannabis, shopping, various things that ultimately could lead to an addiction.
What is the connection between ADHD and criminal behavior?
Do you think if left unchecked and that propensity to seek the low-hanging fruit, the quick dopamine, can that lead to a dangerous path of crime perhaps for somebody like that? I think that... Can I have just a second of your time? If this podcast has helped you understand your brain or made you feel less alone, can you do me one favor? Can you hit the follow button? And I'll repay the favor by continuing to book the best and most exclusive conversations on this topic. Please enjoy the episode and always remember, you're not broken, just different, and you have always been enough. Dr. Yath, welcome to the ADHD Chatter podcast.
What is the grieving process after an ADHD diagnosis?
Thank you for having me. It's such a pleasure to have you here. The patients that you've treated for ADHD, they range from 18 years old to 100 years old. Is there anything that still shocks you about ADHD?
So, there are so many things that shock me about ADHD, but I should start off by saying that I guess the reason why I treat people within that range is I'm a dual trained general adult and old age psychiatrist. And as I went through my training, I essentially developed skills with treating neurodivergence in both the adult population, but I also took those skills into the work that I was doing in the older adult population. I think what shocks me about ADHD at the most is the fact that the symptoms can still persist over the different age groups. And in particular, I think what I've learned from working with people across those different age groups is that although the symptoms themselves can sometimes go away for some people, actually, as life gets more complicated, things can get more complicated for older adults.
So yes.
So the symptoms of ADHD can stay consistent throughout someone's life, all the way from 18 to 100, but the way they manifest and show up and cause challenges, does that change as you go through life and get a bit older?
Absolutely. So let me talk you through the different life stages. Okay, so we're going to start with children. Now, I'm going to call this the dependent stage, because at this stage, what we're looking at is the amount of dependence that you have on your parents or your teachers or whoever it is that provides support around you. Now, with children, When it's obvious that you're acquiring more dependence on those people compared to others, then we start to notice problems with ADHD. But therein lies the challenge, because if you're very good at masking your symptoms, if your symptoms were there, but you had a sibling who had, let's say, hyperactive symptoms that were more obvious, then if there were symptoms that were happening, but there was something else going on like parental divorce or conflict, and they could be rationalized or justified in another way.
For all those different reasons, it's very possible to get through childhood where you have symptoms, but they haven't manifested into something that we might consider ADHD. So then we go on to your early adulthood. And in this stage, I'd call this the independent stage, because in the independent stage, you're trying to become self-sufficient, but you might find manifestations of ADHD there where you can't. So I'm talking about the people who do really well academically at school, but
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What still shocks Dr. Yath about ADHD?
0:00–0:05
2
How do ADHD symptoms manifest at different life stages?
0:05–0:19
3
What is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and how does it affect individuals with ADHD?
0:19–0:48
4
What is the connection between ADHD and criminal behavior?
0:48–1:26
5
What is the grieving process after an ADHD diagnosis?
1:26–5:30
6
Why have women historically been overlooked in ADHD diagnoses?
5:30–6:07
7
How does ADHD cause distress in individuals?
6:07–6:56
8
What is involved in the ADHD assessment process?
6:56–1:09:26
Speakers
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