Mind Reading: Busy Philipps Is Bringing Attention To Undiagnosed ADHD Among Women

Busy Philipps spent years struggling with undiagnosed ADHD.

“As young person in school it certainly affected my schoolwork and attention… and as I got older my ADHD, which I didn’t know was ADHD, presented in a different way. And that was I always felt this sort of low-grade low self-esteem, low-grade depression and anxiety that I was missing something, that other people were able to handle things that for me seemed insurmountable,” Philipps says.

“I didn’t know what was wrong with me. I suffered from feeling like I was stupid, I would tell myself that in my head, and as my life got bigger with kids and a job and additional creative projects and trying to juggle all these things and keep it all straight, it only got worse”…