I’m a Psychiatrist. I’m Hearing Something New From Young Women. (Opinion) 

 ADHD in the News 2026-08-20


Several years ago, I started noticing something new when teenage girls or young women came to my office for their first psychiatric sessions. Patients used to dread being told that there was something, as they saw it, wrong with them. Now these young women were announcing their diagnoses — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression — almost before telling me their names.

View Article: The New York Times, August 18, 2026




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