Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women with ADHD face daily challenges. Many doctors still believe that ADD is a condition just for men and boys. Additionally, many ADD symptoms in women fluctuate with hormones, and become more apparent during puberty and then again when estrogen decreases during PMS or perimenopause.
Symptoms
Women with adult ADD are impatient, easily annoyed and easily impulsive. women and adhd tend to be impulsive and jump into projects, such as careers or relationships without planning them in advance. Many of them have a high level of rejection sensitivity which makes it difficult to handle real or perceived rejection. Women with ADD are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than women who do not have ADD, such as early sexual contact, casual sex multiple partners and unprotected pregnancies. Depression can coexist with or is a result of ADD and requires treatment as well. ADD symptoms are more apparent in girls who are puberty, PMS, and as estrogen levels decrease in perimenopausal and menopause.
Diagnosis
Doctors may miss diagnosing ADD in women because they believe it is more common in boys. Women who suffer from ADD tend to be more emotional particularly when they are puberty, PMS and in perimenopause and menopause as hormone levels change. They may be highly impatient and go into things in with a flurry instead of arranging their lives properly. Depression is often a co-occurring disorder or is a result of the disorder.