{"id":122231,"date":"2021-04-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/?p=122231"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:00:41","slug":"adhd-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/adhd-in-women.htm","title":{"rendered":"ADHD in Women – Are the Symptoms Different?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ADHDby Andrea M. Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n

A female who has long suspected<\/strong> that your brain works differently? But not sure if it could be attention deficit disorder<\/a>? ADHD in women can manifest in different ways.<\/p>\n

[Very curious? Take our free Adult ADHD quiz\u00a0<\/span><\/a>now].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Girls, women, and ADHD<\/h2>\n

For a long time, ADHD was a diagnosis<\/strong> given mostly to hyperactive boys.<\/p>\n

It was finally recognised that girls were being under-diagnosed,<\/b>\u00a0<\/strong>because they were more likely to have an \u2018inattentive\u2019 version of ADHD than be hyperactive.<\/p>\n

That child always dreaming and staring out the window,<\/strong> lost in her own world, is as likely to have ADHD as the child speaking out of turn and unable to sit still.<\/p>\n

And she grows up into a woman who still<\/strong> struggles to stay grounded. And while the male:female ratio is worse in children, she might still run the risk of missing out on a diagnosis.<\/p>\n

A study of European countries<\/a> found that ratios of boy:girl diagnoses can range from 3:1 to 16:1. In adults, <\/span>American research<\/a> suggests suggests the ratio is at 4:1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The core symptoms of ADHD<\/h2>\n

There are two main categories for ADHD.<\/strong> These are inattention, and hyperactivity-impulsivity.<\/p>\n

From there, three ‘subtypes’ are considered<\/strong> in a diagnosis:<\/p>\n