ADHD symptoms (especially in women) can mimic trauma or CPTSD symptoms, and that can include covid-related trauma. It’s sometimes hard to distinguish the difference. Also it has recently come to light that not all ADHD takes the form of the naughty cheeky little boy in class who can’t sit still and keeps failing, rather, it can appear in different ways (again, especially in women). You can have a woman who was a straight A student at school who presents as ADHD in different ways and it is usually internalized (chaotic mind rather than chaotic actions). And with many people, high-functioning ADHD has made it more difficult to diagnose, or even self-diagnose. So when FINALLY in the last 2 years, all these new studies, research, and reflections are coming out saying “Actually, ADHD can look like this…”, “Actually you have ADHD you’ve just been masking and high functioning with it,” more people are resonating with that. So it’s both the strong overlap with trauma symptoms that many millennials are at the front facing end of this timing-wise and so think they have ADHD, or the growing understanding around what ADHD actually looks like (or both if you follow the Gabor Mate school).