I was doing some research for a project and some experts have said that it's near impossible to have ADHD and OCD, is that true or is this just another case of the medical community being sexist?

Well the dsm only recently included the symptoms that are more common in girls so i was wondering if they were basing it being impossible on the hyperactive symptoms and not the inattentive/combination types

@Lauren Nailed it. 🎯

Well they don't diagnose for girls with ADHD that are not hyperactive because they just don't feel like it unless they're a distraction to the class. If women with ADHD aren't diagnosed early most get a diagnosis for a mood/substance abuse disorder first due to the stress of the disorder

@Lauren Interesting! I've just heard stories of women getting diagnosed late because they're being "dramatic" about things or its just pms.

@Sarahtonen No up until recently the DSM (the diagnosis criteria manual for psychiatric diseases) didn't even include the symptoms for inattentive/combination types which is what girls commonly have. Many doctors and mental health professionals don't really stay up to date with stuff like that. When ADHD was first discovered they didn't look at the symptoms of women/girls. It's annoying and my whole project i did on that I was just angerly ranting.

@Lauren That is annoying. It's just being a girl seeking medical help/diagnosis is exhausting.

@Sarahtonen Yeah, I basically had to yell at my psychiatrist to listen to me and give me a diagnosis because everyone else would just dismiss it and move on. I would do some research and look at the rarer symptoms of ADHD since it shares some with autism spectrum disorder. I was so relieved when my brother's psychiatrist let him look at the symptoms of both and choose which one suits him best because a lot of the time with those people don't realize that some of the things they do aren't "normal"

@Lauren (I’d love to read your rantproject sometime if it’s out there for public consumption 🍿)

@JoyousEffort https://1drv.ms/b/s!ApfIKekCn4dLg309D4mNkeFqOf9i Hopefully the link works, i put a bunch of memes but i still got a 100 because my instructor thought it was neat