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Unveiling the mystery about adult ADHD: one woman's journey
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Unveiling the mystery about adult ADHD: one woman's journey

Roberta Waite and Nicole Ivey
Issues in mental health nursing, v 30(9), pp 547-553
Sep 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840902741989
PMID: 19657868

Abstract

Nursing Methodology Research Time Management Divorce - psychology Family - ethnology Attitude to Health - ethnology Humans Social Support Cost of Illness Single Parent - psychology African Americans - ethnology Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - ethnology Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - therapy Self Concept Social Behavior Suicide - psychology Adult Female Quality of Life - psychology Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis Adaptation, Psychological
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a neurobiological disorder, affects millions of individuals and can significantly impact an individual's life course. Research guidelines used in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment have focused primarily on Caucasian males generating, in part, the need to redress how gender and other contextual factors are considered. Consequently many women and persons from diverse cultural groups can be ignored or misdiagnosed. Undiagnosed and untreated women with ADHD are therefore limited in their potential to flourish socially, academically, interpersonally, and in their family roles. This case example of a 38-year-old African American woman illustrates how her life journey was affected by undiagnosed ADHD.

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