Diagnosed by Reel
Five signs, forty seconds, and the relief of a name. Self-diagnosis by short video is mostly inaccurate and entirely understandable.
Society · · 10 min read
One a.m. By two, the feed had made up its mind.
At one in the morning, in a flat in Kothrud, Tanvi is watching a woman in a car explain her to herself. The video is forty seconds long and is called, in bouncing yellow captions, 5 signs of ADHD in women that nobody talks about. You lose your keys constantly. You zone out in the middle of conversations. You hate phone calls. You have a graveyard of abandoned hobbies. You have “doom piles”: heaps of things you mean to sort out and never do.
Tanvi is twenty-seven and a content strategist. She looks up from her phone. On the chair in the corner of her bedroom is a doom pile. Beside the door is a ukulele she played for three weeks in 2023. She has had the same fourteen unanswered voicemails for a month. It is five out of five.
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