Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women suffering from ADHD face daily challenges. Many doctors believe that ADD is a disorder just for men and boys. Many ADD symptoms in females vary in response to hormones. They are more apparent during puberty, and then diminish when estrogen levels drop during PMS or perimenopause.
Signs and symptoms
Women who suffer from adult ADD tend to be impatient, easily annoyed, and easily irritable and. They tend to take on projects without planning or taking time to think about them like careers or relationships. Many of them have a high level of rejection sensitivity which makes it difficult to handle the real or perceived rejection. These women are more likely than women with ADD to engage in risky behavior, such as early sexual contact or casual sexual relations. They could also have multiple partners, an unprotected pregnancy, and multiple partners. Depression is often a co-existing disorder or result of ADD and should be treated. ADD symptoms are more evident in girls during puberty, PMS, and as estrogen levels decrease during perimenopause and menopausal changes.
Diagnosis
While ADD symptoms in women are similar to those of men, doctors may miss the diagnosis because of misguided assumptions that ADD is more prevalent in boys. Women who suffer from ADD are more emotional than other women, particularly when they enter puberty, experience PMS, or enter menopausal or perimenopausal phases. They may be impulsive, jumping into things without planning. try these out can be a result of or is a result of the disorder.