Are You Just Distracted or Is It Adult ADHD?

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It’s estimated that over 8% of adults in the U.S. have ADHD, also known as attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. For many adults, life during the pandemic, with its shifts in schedule and intense demand for multi-tasking, made them more aware of disordered feelings, leading them to an ADHD diagnosis. In other instances, parents who are in the process of getting their child diagnosed with ADHD realize that they suffer from many of the same symptoms as their kids. Indeed, ADHD is often underdiagnosed in women and people of color. We’ll look at what it’s like to be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and how to manage and live with it. Related link(s): HALP at UCSF Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Guests: Stephen Hinshaw, distinguished professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco; author, "Straight Talk about ADHD in Girls" - released this month, and "Another Kind of Madness: A Journey through the Stigma and Hope of Mental Illness." Sara Chung, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF School of Medicine - Chung was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.6	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, is often associated with young boys but the medical
1:30.3	fact is that millions of adults of all genders have ADHD life during the pandemic with its shifts
1:36.3	and schedules and intense demand for multitasking made some people realize that the disorder they
1:41.7	were feeling was actually ADHD.
1:48.7	In other instances, parents in the process of getting their own children diagnosed with ADHD realized that they suffered from many of the same symptoms as their kids.
1:53.1	So today, we're talking ADHD and adults, busting some myths, learning from the experience of
1:58.0	it, and separating this specific experience from the chaos of these last few years.
2:03.0	That's all coming up next after this news.
2:12.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Maybe it's because of how widespread the diagnosis of ADHD has become, or maybe it's
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