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- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y
It is more rare but definitely not near impossible. Don't think it's sexism though
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. 🎯
Ik girls are diagnosed later in life because they think we're being dramatic 🙄
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
I was doing some research and saw about the narcissistic traits that OCD can create. Is this after the person knows they have OCD? Because I always knew I had it. But it was the classic one, with little quirks. Years later I developed false memory and intrusive thoughts whit my present theme. I was reading this because I was thinking about attraction. And I think I'm only attracted to two people in this life. But I remember from times by I had the feeling to please people. Without any interest and without even having the intention to do it, it was very automatic. So I was constantly focusing on how I was apparently being. I never acted like I was interested, but it was always like I was dealing with people's focuses. To tell you the truth, I've noticed that I do this even in other social interactions. I feel like I'm being watched all the time and so I have to act the way I'd like to be seen, like a sweet and delicate person. To be honest, I thought it had to do with my childhood issues because I was very careless and that got me bullied a lot when I was little kid. So I thought I was super focused on my appearance because of that. And I thought that the agaradar came as a consequence precisely because I was always seen as a grotesque girl because I took little care of myself. I even remember that the compliment that made me happiest was when someone said I was delicate. It made sense to me that it really was that. But after researching more, I realized that there are a lot of impulsive and repetitive things in my actions. And never with any intention. But in a very strange way. So much so that when I was younger I swore that I had some kind of personality disorder because it was very common to act one way one day and another way the next day. Maybe I was just an unstable teenager? Thank u for the help!
(TW- Please don’t read if you have ocd relating to one off/random medical events) ^ ^ ^ ^ okay so this is something I’ve been confused about for YEARS and completely sped up my ocd symptoms, I had a one off seizure a few years ago, it wasn’t a major one but enough to have family take me to the hospital afterwards, I don’t remember anything whilst it was happening and I was unwell at the time too. I did all the tests and nothing came back, even tested for epilepsy but I don’t have that. No one has been able to give me a reason and that set off my ocd since mine is mostly based around things I cant see hurting me or others (contamination ocd) or me making the wrong decision (rOCD, real event etc etc) (no clue I had ocd at this point though, only got diagnosed last year) I know they can be stressed induced too but I remember not feeling that stressed that night and not much was going on… Is there anyone that’s experienced the same thing?? Could it be OCD related at all?
so, i’ve been thinking i have ocd, but my dad said that adhd is really bad in my family, so could it be adhd instead of ocd?
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