If you are a girl who thinks they might of been misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression,agoraphobia, ocd and it might actually be ADHD or it you know an ADHD women in your life you have to read "Women with Attention Deficit Disorder- Embrace your differences and transform your life" If you have not read this book by Sari Solden MS, LMFT READ IT! Omg I have never seen ME in a book like this before. EVERYTHING down to how we were as kids to adults, to the type of men we are drawn to, EVEN my struggles with list! "People start compensating for memory and executive functioning problems with list that become a bigger problem than the original symptom, taking up more and more time, making someone a slave to the list rather than using it as a tool. I recently learned of a man with adhd who took this to the extreme and made daily list up to 20 pgs in 5 point font, single spaced. Its hard to know how or when to stop, especially if you have some compulsivity thrown with your trouble with categorization. You can wind up with a long list of unrelated items." Pg 195. That is what happened to me when I was 19/20! This is insane. This is the missing puzzle piece that I have been struggling my whole life to understand. How can there be so many people just like me? How can there be a book that knows my deep pain and downward spiral I have been in since college? The pain and struggle of my childhood years. I never understood ADHD before. I thought it was something that schools slapped on kids to make them conform to school. I thought public school was too hard after it took me 8 hours to figure out daughters social studies book was just telling me to read her a book about george washington and practice reciting the pledge. I thought they were insane to make the teachers manual that hard. I didnt know it was my brain making it that hard. I didnt know that just living was not suppose to be this hard. Why I would blow up on my family if they asked me to do something simple like pick something up from the store since I was already leaving the house. Everyone always told me Im just too hard on my self, girls are just emotional, that I just overwork myself- but since Covid I only work 8 hours a week, my daughter is old enough to feed herself and pick up after herself, I fired the school and made homeschool super simple and no one cared that I couldnt maintain the house and I STILL couldnt function! I thought I was crazy. I thought I just came from a long line of insane people and there was no hope for me. That I was trapped inside myself, trapped with the never ending organizing and cleaning that made me not even want to go to work or hang out with friends because how could I leave this disaster? This is a must read for girls that have ADHD and didnt find out until adulthood. It has been a rollar coaster for me as I was just recently diagnosed this month at 29 years old!