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    In a TEDxHeritageGreen talk, ADHD physician Dr Heather Brannon says 75% of adults with anxiety actually have ADHD as its root cause. Adult ADHD often looks nothing like the childhood version, leaving many feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and ashamed rather than hyperactive.
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    In a TEDxHeritageGreen talk, ADHD physician Dr Heather Brannon says 75% of adults with anxiety actually have ADHD as its root cause. Adult ADHD often looks nothing like the childhood version, leaving many feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and ashamed rather than hyperactive.


    In a TEDxHeritageGreen talk, ADHD physician Dr Heather Brannon says 75% of adults with anxiety actually have ADHD as its root cause. Adult ADHD often looks nothing like the childhood version, leaving many feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and ashamed rather than hyperactive.

    In a TEDxHeritageGreen talk, ADHD physician Dr Heather Brannon says 75% of adults with anxiety actually have ADHD as its root cause. Adult ADHD often looks nothing like the childhood version, leaving many feeling anxious, overwhelmed, and ashamed rather than hyperactive.
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    1. Prior_One_7050 on

      What gets me is how many people are probably being treated for anxiety with the wrong tools entirely. If the underlying issue is ADHD, do standard anxiety medications even help long term? Would love to know how often a correct ADHD diagnosis actually resolves the anxiety without needing separate treatment for it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

    2. SoberBobMonthly on

      Does having untreated ADHD cause anxiety? Yeah it was awful.

      Do most people with anxiety have secret ADHD? Probably not considering that anxiety isnt the main symptom we suffer from.

      I knew something was wrong when I kept wandering into traffic as an adult but tested normal for all intellectual and other mental disorders. ADHD is a diagnosis of elimination. It can co occur yes, but dear god anxiety was not the main symptom of concern.

      The most severe symptoms are short term memory deficiencies that are so bad we do shit like throw our keys in the bin, leave gas stoves on, all that shit. Sure that can cause anxiety in some but believe it or not I was only socially anxious. I probably SHOULD have been anxious about leaving my car running in the drive way forgetting to turn it off while I sit in the lounge room. 

      The best way ive heard this disorder described as is “a free trial run of dementia” and theyre not wrong it feels like lite brain damage. Medication works and saves lives

    3. KittenRadar_809 on

      Its wild how often anxiety is just masking something else, I feel like I see this pattern everywhere now.

    4. jeeven_ on

      Just my two cents, this has been my exact experience. Treated for anxiety/depression the last 3 years only to be diagnosed as adhd last week.

    5. Team_Braniel on

      Conversely when i started taking sertraline for anxiety my ADD went crazy.

      I’m a totally different person with my anxiety treated, but my focus is back like I was 13 again.

    6. acfox13 on

      Is it ADHD or untreated trauma or a combination of both? The overlap between ADHD symptoms and trauma symptoms is almost a circle. Treat the trauma and many of the ADHD symptoms go away.