Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women with ADHD face challenges every day. Many doctors believe that ADD is a disorder only affecting men and boys. Many ADD symptoms in females change with hormones. They become more prominent during puberty, and then decrease when estrogen levels drop during PMS or perimenopause.
Signs and symptoms
Adult women with ADD are impatient, easily annoyed and impulsive. They often jump into projects without planning or considering the implications, such as careers and relationships. Some also have sensitivity to rejection which makes it hard to handle real or perceived rejection. Women with ADD are more likely to engage in risky sexual actions than women who don't have ADD like early sex, casual sex, multiple partners, and unprotected pregnancy. Depression is often a co-occurring condition that is the result of ADD and needs to be treated equally. attention deficit disorder in women are more obvious when girls reach puberty, during PMS and when estrogen levels decrease during perimenopause or menopause.
Diagnosis
While ADD symptoms of women are similar to those in men, doctors may miss the diagnosis because of misconceptions that ADD is more prevalent in boys. Women who suffer from ADD are more emotional than other women, particularly when they go through puberty, experience PMS, or enter menopausal or perimenopausal phases. They can become highly impulsive and jump into things with a flurry instead of planning their lives carefully. Depression can be a result of or is a result of the disorder.