“My diagnosis came with such a sense of relief from knowing, Oh my God, there is a reason why I feel the way I feel. My brain just works a little bit differently,” said Seidel, who earned the bronze medal in the Olympic marathon in Japan.
. “This led to me never getting better and ending up having a mental breakdown before I got my proper ADHD diagnosis 10 years later.”
“I wish that I had been more vocal about exactly how I was feeling earlier, because we might have gotten to the solution a lot earlier,” said Seidel, a world-class professional runner who was diagnosed withand eating disorders before finally receiving an ADHD diagnosis a few years ago. “Especially as women, a lot of us are willing to almost gaslight ourselves by saying, ‘Oh it’s not really that bad.
,” said Seidel, who earned the bronze medal in the Olympic marathon in Japan. “That diagnosis was the most freeing thing and the thing that has gotten me to the place that I am now.”
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