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433 pages, ebook
First published October 3, 2023
ADHD very rarely travels alone. It has a whole host of friends who like to tag along. These are known as common comorbidities, which just means other disorders that for some reason often occur in the same person at the same time. These are corrolated with ADHD. Anxiety is one of the most common comobidities affecting 44.7% of adults with ADHD compared with 4.9% of those without. Depression rates are also right up there, found in around 42% of us vs. 4.7% of non-ADHDers. ADHDers are also 3.8x more likely to experience an eating disorder than non-ADHDers and 5.7x to. have bulimia nervosa specifically.
Eating disorders are very common among those with ADHD. Low self-esteem coupled with a predisposition towards hyper fixation, perfectionism, and the obsessive need to make up for perceived deficits in other areas of one's life to gain self-acceptance, it's not hard to see why.
Most of the symptoms of ADHD are just normal human struggles amped up a few, potentially quite a few notches. Without a proper understanding of your brain, it's extremely easy to assume that you're simply a bit worse than other people. We tell ourselves we're clumsy, stupid, forgetful, lazy. We tell ourselves we're thoughtless, hopeless, unreliable, and selfish. We've learned to talk to ourselves this way because we were taught to.