Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women suffering from ADHD face challenges every day. They are often misdiagnosed or mistreated because many physicians still consider ADD as a condition that affects men and boys. Many ADD symptoms in females change in response to hormones. They become more noticeable when you reach puberty, but they decrease as estrogen levels decrease during PMS or perimenopause.
Signs and symptoms
Women who suffer from adult ADD tend to be irritable, impatient, irritated, and impulsive. They are often impulsive and get involved in projects without planning or considering the implications, such as careers and relationships. Many have a high level of sensitivity to rejection which makes it difficult to handle the real or perceived rejection. They are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors than women who don't suffer from ADD like early sexual activity, casual sex multiple partners, and unprotected pregnancy. Depression is often a co-existing disorder or a result of ADD and needs to be treated. ADD symptoms are more evident in girls during puberty, PMS, and as estrogen levels decrease in perimenopausal and menopausal changes.
Diagnosis
Although ADD symptoms of women are similar to those of men, doctors may be unable to diagnose the condition due to misguided assumptions that ADD is more prevalent in males. Women who suffer from ADD are more emotional than other women, particularly when they are going through puberty, experience PMS, or enter menopausal or perimenopausal phases. discover this may be highly impulsive and jump into things at a rapid pace, instead of planning their lives carefully. Depression can be a result of or is a result of the disorder.