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Similar ADHD med trends were seen in Canada and in the U.K. Clinical Partners, one of the U.K.'s leading mental-health-care providers, reported that some 254,400 women took its online ADHD test in 2021 - 33 times the 7,700 women who self-assessed in 2019. Not only that, but the association between a higher ACE score and moderate to severe ADHD is significant, meaning trauma makes ADHD symptoms worse. Psychiatrist Lidia Zylowska, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the author of The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD, adds that for women, the impulsive emotions associated with ADHD, like anger or enthusiasm, might be exhibited in ways we don't recognize as impulsivity. While pandemic isolation may have contributed to that rise, a study published in 2019 found that the rate of annual adult ADHD diagnoses increased 43 percent between 2007 and 2016, and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed a 344 percent increase in women between the ages of 15 and 44 filling ADHD medication prescriptions from 2003 to 2015. [Extracted from the article] |
