Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women suffering from ADHD face daily challenges. They are often misdiagnosed or mistreated because many physicians still view ADD as a disorder that is only affecting males and boys. Many ADD symptoms in females fluctuate in response to hormones. navigate here are more apparent during puberty, and then decrease as estrogen levels decrease during PMS or perimenopausal.
Symptoms
Women with adult ADD tend to be impatient, easily irritated, and impulsive. They often take on projects without considering the implications things like careers and relationships. Some also have sensitivity to rejection which makes it hard for them to deal with the real or perceived rejection. These women are more likely to engage in sexually risky behaviors than women who do not suffer from ADD for example, such as early sexual activity, casual sex multiple partners and unprotected births. Depression is often a co-occurring condition that results from ADD and must be treated as well. ADD symptoms are more evident in girls who are puberty during PMS and as estrogen levels drop in menopausal perimenopausal women or during menopaus.
Diagnosis
While ADD symptoms in women are similar to those in men, doctors might miss the diagnosis because of misguided assumptions that ADD is more prevalent in males. Women who suffer from ADD tend to be more emotional especially during puberty, PMS, and during menopausal and perimenopausal hormone levels change. They can be impulsive, and rushing into things without planning. Depression is often a co-occurring disorder or is a result of the disorder.