Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women with ADHD face daily challenges. Many doctors still believe that ADD is a condition that just for men and boys. Also there are many ADD symptoms in women fluctuate with hormones, becoming more apparent during puberty and then resurfacing as estrogen levels decline during PMS or perimenopause.
Signs and symptoms
Women with adult ADD are easily annoyed and impulsive. They tend to be impulsive and jump into projects, such as relationships or careers without planning them in advance. Many also have rejection sensitivity which makes it hard to cope with the real or perceived rejection. These women are more likely than those who do not have ADD to engage in risky behavior like early sex or casual sex. previous may also have multiple partners, an unprotected pregnancy, or multiple partners. Depression is often a co-occurring condition that results from ADD and requires treatment in conjunction with it. ADD symptoms are more obvious in girls who are puberty during PMS and as estrogen levels drop during menopausal or perimenopausal.
Diagnosis
While ADD symptoms of women are similar to those of men, doctors could be unable to diagnose the condition due to misguided assumptions that ADD is more prevalent in males. Women who suffer from ADD tend to be more emotional, particularly when they are puberty, PMS and in 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 consequence of the disorder.