Women Suffer In Silence With ADHD
From CBS NEWS
NEW YORK, May 9, 2007
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Often, they work harder than others but never quite fit in. Kirstin Boncher, Evelyn Polk Green and Lisa Wright always felt that they were different. They lived much of their lives not understanding what is wrong with them. That is because all three suffer from a condition typically associated with children, ADHD.
Green went to college on a scholarship. But once there, she couldn't keep up and she dropped out. "I can remember sitting in my apartment for days at a time in the dark, because once I fell behind, I didn't know how to catch back up," she told The Early Show correspondent Susan McGinnis. "I didn't know what to do to fix it."
Boncher found daily life overwhelming. "It's every little task that you have to do in a day: making breakfast, making lunch, making dinner. And you see something else that you have to do so then you do that too," she said. "It gets done. But, it's — it's such agony." And with the agony, comes a feeling of failure. Wright couldn't seem to finish anything. "It's like I'd be 99 percent done and I can't get the last step," she said. "I wanted to live up to be what I thought I could be, or what other people are, you know."
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