Self Diagnosis and TikTok
<p>Tiktok, and the internet in general, was actually instrumental in my diagnosis of both ADHD and PCOS. For ADHD in particular, I kept seeing videos about people who had ADHD, particularly women, and I kept thinking “hey that’s like me”. I had no idea things I thought were just my quirks, or from anxiety, were ADHD. Things like starting projects and never finishing, getting really invested in a hobby and losing interest, being really into a book or video game for a period of time and then suddenly losing interest, interrupting others and feeling like you cannot stop yourself from doing so, being overly empathetic, and item/time blindness. Eventually it got to the point where I knew I had to see a doctor, and I did get a referral from my primary care physician. I had suspected I had PCOS for a long time, but every time I went to a gynecologists, </p>
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