.ByGollyMolly12, an Olympic bronze medalist, emphasizes the significance of patients and healthcare providers maintaining an open dialogue, as she reflects on her experience of playing 'whack-a-mole' for years to obtain an ADHD diagnosis. MedTwitter
Molly Seidel is one of only three American women to medal in the Olympics in one of the most brutal of events, the marathon. Perhaps what's even more remarkable about Molly is her success in overcoming a series of mental health challenges.
The funny and gnarly thing about any of these mental disorders and what I've experienced is that it almost seems like a game of whack-a-mole, that when you whack down one thing or when you feel that you've got a handle on one thing, it jumps to another thing. So when it's not-- when it's not like obsessive restriction, it turns into bulimia. When you get rid of the bulimia, it turns into restriction again.
And I got the -- my two main diagnoses just are the ADHD and the OCD. Obviously, it was years apart for the two of those and it took longer to identify the ADHD. But it came with such a sense of relief and knowing of just like, oh, my God there's a reason why I feel the way that I feel and maybe I'm not just thoroughly messed up and thoroughly a terrible person because your brain just works a little bit differently.
And I think a lot of that came with a deep sense of shame for me. And that was the hardest part of just being I don't know why my brain just can't work the way that other people's brains work. And especially -- I think especially with the ADHD -- the OCD was one because that was more of a pathology, kind of just being like, OK, this is something that I really need to work on and improve, this is a disorder.
I'm a pretty big nerd when it comes to this stuff, so I enjoy learning about it and I really enjoy trying -- reading medical papers, trying to figure out stuff, doing my own research, especially as it comes to some of these alternative techniques for treating ADHD. So having a basic level of competence with that I think has really helped.
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