Interesting. However, as an adult female suffering from disordered eating for 25 years (now in recovery) and waiting for an ADHD disorder, I would have liked her to have explained the reasons why there's this comorbidity, why ADHD overlaps with eating disorders. Is it a way to manage anxiety? To control something? To have a sense of accomplishment at least in something that we manage to do? To focus (obsessively/hyperfocusing) our scattered mind on food, weight and body image? I was looking forward to that being dealt with.
I have combined inattentive and hyperactive ADHD, I also suspect some autism, and I definitely relate to ARFID. The term was brought up to me by a friend who was starkly like me and got diagnosed by a doctor, even though I'm in the us, and they are in Ireland. We both have an issue with just forgetting to eat, maybe pairing eating with an activity and then getting consumed in the other task that we forget the food is sitting on the table next to us. I also have issues with texture occasionally, but I usually push through it (trying to distract myself from the texture/smell) and have been pressured by societal influences to "not be picky" but if I had it my way I'd be super picky! I'm not at all concerned with body shape, so I know it's not anorexia Nervosa, I've never identified with anorexia and always felt like a fraud when using it to describe my issues with food. I do not weigh a healthy amount for my age, I'm very underweight and always try and fail to gain weight. Sometimes ranging from 104 on Monday, 108 on Friday, and then 103 the next week, it's very frustrating. I suspect there is also something to do with my high metabolism, it's always been exceptionally high and I've tried to lean into more protein and grain rich foods to combat this issue, but it never truly works. I'm curious about how to get more research done for these very niche issues, is there a petition or something I can sign? Lol
Sorry but I zoned out at about 15 mins because she doesn't seem to explain its impact of ADHD specifically. I am sure my binge eating is a direct result of needing to concentrate, hence why I mainly do it when I am working at the computer. I mouse with one hand and pop dried fruit and nuts with the other. Or if I am overwhelmed or in burnout or premenstrual, I will eat a whole pkt of lollies or a family sized block of chocolate, then feel so disgusted I eat a whole pkt of chips, so the salt cancels out the sweet taste. Then I feel even more guilty and eat a heap of fruit or multiple bowls of cereal and kid myself the relatively healthy choice will make me have less of a sugar hangover, even though I am completely aware of how much fructose is in ALL of that stuff so my glucose spike will be extreme. Occasionally I have purged after such a session, hoping I will get it out before all that sugar poisons me, but not since I understood it was an eating disorder. I am 53 and was diagnosed ADHD almost a year ago. Not by my GP, who diagnosed and medicated me for depression and anxiety for ten years, but by multiple colleagues. When I raised it, the GP didn't hesitate to refer me to a psych for ADHD assessment. He said he doesn't refer anyone unless he is 90% sure. I guess he was only 89% sure until I suggested it myself :/. Suddenly he's an expert, so when I told him I've struggled with my weight since having a baby 13 years ago, and I have always snacked to keep alert for computer work, he said "That's not how the brain works." I am looking for some proof that it's how MY brain works and it's because of my triple whammy of late motherhood, perimenopause and late diagnosed ADHD. Where can I find some scientific research to show him? I am tired of having my GP invalidate what I know to be true, especially as he is clearly no ADHD expert.
Interesting. However, as an adult female suffering from disordered eating for 25 years (now in recovery) and waiting for an ADHD disorder, I would have liked her to have explained the reasons why there's this comorbidity, why ADHD overlaps with eating disorders. Is it a way to manage anxiety? To control something? To have a sense of accomplishment at least in something that we manage to do? To focus (obsessively/hyperfocusing) our scattered mind on food, weight and body image? I was looking forward to that being dealt with.
I have combined inattentive and hyperactive ADHD, I also suspect some autism, and I definitely relate to ARFID. The term was brought up to me by a friend who was starkly like me and got diagnosed by a doctor, even though I'm in the us, and they are in Ireland.
We both have an issue with just forgetting to eat, maybe pairing eating with an activity and then getting consumed in the other task that we forget the food is sitting on the table next to us. I also have issues with texture occasionally, but I usually push through it (trying to distract myself from the texture/smell) and have been pressured by societal influences to "not be picky" but if I had it my way I'd be super picky!
I'm not at all concerned with body shape, so I know it's not anorexia Nervosa, I've never identified with anorexia and always felt like a fraud when using it to describe my issues with food. I do not weigh a healthy amount for my age, I'm very underweight and always try and fail to gain weight. Sometimes ranging from 104 on Monday, 108 on Friday, and then 103 the next week, it's very frustrating.
I suspect there is also something to do with my high metabolism, it's always been exceptionally high and I've tried to lean into more protein and grain rich foods to combat this issue, but it never truly works. I'm curious about how to get more research done for these very niche issues, is there a petition or something I can sign? Lol
Sorry but I zoned out at about 15 mins because she doesn't seem to explain its impact of ADHD specifically. I am sure my binge eating is a direct result of needing to concentrate, hence why I mainly do it when I am working at the computer. I mouse with one hand and pop dried fruit and nuts with the other. Or if I am overwhelmed or in burnout or premenstrual, I will eat a whole pkt of lollies or a family sized block of chocolate, then feel so disgusted I eat a whole pkt of chips, so the salt cancels out the sweet taste. Then I feel even more guilty and eat a heap of fruit or multiple bowls of cereal and kid myself the relatively healthy choice will make me have less of a sugar hangover, even though I am completely aware of how much fructose is in ALL of that stuff so my glucose spike will be extreme. Occasionally I have purged after such a session, hoping I will get it out before all that sugar poisons me, but not since I understood it was an eating disorder.
I am 53 and was diagnosed ADHD almost a year ago. Not by my GP, who diagnosed and medicated me for depression and anxiety for ten years, but by multiple colleagues. When I raised it, the GP didn't hesitate to refer me to a psych for ADHD assessment. He said he doesn't refer anyone unless he is 90% sure. I guess he was only 89% sure until I suggested it myself :/. Suddenly he's an expert, so when I told him I've struggled with my weight since having a baby 13 years ago, and I have always snacked to keep alert for computer work, he said "That's not how the brain works." I am looking for some proof that it's how MY brain works and it's because of my triple whammy of late motherhood, perimenopause and late diagnosed ADHD.
Where can I find some scientific research to show him? I am tired of having my GP invalidate what I know to be true, especially as he is clearly no ADHD expert.
Huge weight gain. And too much cannabis