Spotlight on new insights on health in women with ADHD

Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation 🙂

Thank you so much for your focus on ADHD and gender ..and gender identity!! The mention of inclusion of gender identity literally brought tears to my eyes because women have been excluded and transgender women 100x more so . One feedback I have is about using the 'women' segregation at the outset of anything. We in society, I believe wrongly, start out assuming gender is a valid division. It seems wrong on a fundamental level to setup a group for women because it perpetuates the thinking that led to women being excluded in the first place. Would it not be better to focus on the suspected deficiency. For instance, name the group 'ADHD for people of higher estrogen' or 'ADHD in low testosterone individual's or 'adhd in people who took on care giving roles'? I understand the challenges because we do live mostly in a divided society today whether it is right or wrong. I can tell you as a transgender woman, I do identify as female, but also as transgender. I also have lived in both the male role for 45 years and now the female role. However, the roles had significant overlap. I shared caregiving responsibility for my daughter, I was expected to also maintain our home, In childhood I was not diagnosed with ADHD for the same reasons most women were missed…. inattentive ADHD. My psychiatrist who is an expert on ADHD has somewhere around 5% patients who are transgender yet he is guessing on treatment because the criteria for diagnosis does not fit transgender people …we end up under diagnosed with lower scores. He does not have evidence based knowledge of how hormones influence things for transgender people …because the little data that exists starts off with male or female as the initial dividing line. A transgender person could be seen as none, both or one or the other. Thank you for your outreach and support on ADHD. I have discovered after many years of struggles that ADHD plays a huge part. And, having been treated for depression for many years, never feeling the root cause was fully identified until I really pushed for answers … It seems to me ADHD acts as a multiplier making every other challenge so much more difficult to deal with.

I always love your webinars, but please stop the blue running line below… it's really really distracting … (:

I wondered if you have controlled for ADHD with dual diagnosis of autism and PCOS vs solely ADHD and PCOS. I'm thinking PCOS is more likely associated with autism?

Is this information being taught to students enrolled medical schools in European and American countries? It would help women and females in the future, if student doctors were taught more women’s health hormone cycle and how it effects female mental health. We need to focus more on the human female health cycle more, than the human male health. After all women are the egg bearers and birthers, for future generations due to our mitochondria DNA, not the males of the human species.