The Role of ADHD in Girls' Mental Health

Dr. Henshaw: Why do therapists tend to accept diagnoses of depression and anxiety more often than they do for ADHD? She says it's a chicken and egg that the anxiety is first and the ADHD emanates from that. But most of the time in the real world, ADHD codes assist with serious learning problems or with aggressive contract problems. "We have to be careful and diagnosing," she says.