'It's been about three weeks to get medication,' a woman told ABC News.
, many are reporting difficulty in accessing care, including long waits for evaluations, missed diagnoses, and struggles to find medications that are in short supply.
"It came with relief," Lubbers said. "And then it came with anger, like, why didn't anyone find this before when I had tried to get help?"However, according to NYU Langone psychiatrist Dr. Lenard Adler, those symptoms often present very differently in adults and females. According to a 2023 study in the Journal of Attentive Disorders, women with ADHD often face the risk of misdiagnosis, a challenge that Lindsay Scola says she personally encountered after working on a writing project that involved a character with ADHD and recognizing the symptoms in herself.
"This woman told me that I should really just start calendaring what was going on in my world and I've been keeping a calendar since I was a teenager," Scola said.So she started the process again, of looking for a new provider. Five months later, a complete evaluation by a different psychologist, revealed that she is in the 99th percentile for inattentive ADHD, Scola said.
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