Your Anxiety Might Actually Be ADHD

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Jun 18, 2026 · 56m

She looked up from her computer and realized, for the first time in her life, that her mind had gone quiet.

For decades, Sammie DeMarco thought she was simply anxious.

Therapy helped. Medication helped. But the anxiety always came back.

Then, five years ago, one diagnosis changed everything: ADHD, the kind that hides in girls as worry.

But quieting her mind let her finally see what she had talked herself out of for years. Her body had been warning her about a marriage that looked supportive in public and drained her in private.

Sammie is a certified life coach who helps women rebuild through…