Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women who suffer from ADHD have to deal with daily challenges. They are often misdiagnosed and mistreated because many physicians still view ADD as a condition that affects boys and men. Many ADD symptoms in females change in response to hormones. They are more apparent when you reach puberty, but they decrease when estrogen levels drop during PMS or perimenopause.
Signs and symptoms
Women with adult ADD tend to be irritable, impatient, annoyed, and impulsive. They are often impulsive and get involved in projects without planning or taking time to think about them, such as careers and relationships. Many suffer from a high degree of sensitivity to rejection, which makes it difficult to handle real or perceived rejection. These women are more likely to engage in sexually risky behavior than women who do not have ADD like early sex, casual sex, multiple partners and unprotected births. Depression is often a co-occurring condition that is the result of ADD and needs to be treated in conjunction with it. ADD symptoms are more obvious in girls at puberty, during PMS and when estrogen levels decrease in menopausal perimenopausal women or during menopaus.
Diagnosis
Doctors can miss diagnosing ADD in women due to the fact that they mistakenly believe that it is more common in males. Women who suffer from ADD tend to be more emotional, especially during puberty, PMS and in perimenopause and menopause as hormone levels change. More hints may be impulsive, rushing into things without planning. Depression is often a co-occurring disorder or as a result.
