Get Real about ADHD: ADHD and Bulimia, Anorexia.
Girls with untreated ADHD are up to 5 times more likely to develop eating disorders like binging, Anorexia and Bulimia.
Your ADHD is a lifetime condition. It pre-disposes us to impulsivity and poor emotional regulation. Without support, it puts girls with ADHD at a higher risk for eating disorders as teens and as adults.
What’s stopping you from taking your ADHD as seriously as you would cancer, high blood pressure or other NEURO developmental conditions like Autism?
The life outcome is bleak for women who have untreated ADHD…nothing much else. No spouse, no family no financial security can all be consequences of never taking ADHD seriously.
So, what you have a few choices now:
!. Get Real about your ADHD and do something about it.
2. Do nothing about it and get more of the same.
3. Marry well, and live in relative safety and security of a successful neurodivergent partner or a neurotypcial partner who gets you.
Pray on that.
Sources: Barkley, R. A., Murphy, K. R., & Fischer, M. (2008).
ADHD in adults: What the sciences says. New York: Guilford Press.
See also Brook, S. J. et al. (2012). Adolescent ADHD
and adult ophysical and mental health, work,
and financial stress. Pediatrics.
