Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges
Adult women with ADHD have to deal with daily issues. They often get misdiagnosed and neglected because many doctors view ADD as a condition that affects males and boys. Many ADD symptoms in females vary in response to hormones. They are more apparent when you reach puberty, but they decrease as estrogen levels decrease during PMS or perimenopausal.
Signs and symptoms
Women with adult ADD are impatient, easily irritated and impulsive. They are more likely to get involved in projects, such as careers or relationships, without planning them out. Many suffer from a high degree of rejection sensitivity which makes it hard for them to cope with actual or perceived rejection. Home are more likely than women who do not have ADD to engage in risky behaviours, such as early sexual activity or casual sexual activity. They could also have multiple partners, unprotected pregnancy, or multiple partners. Depression is often a co-existing disorder or result of ADD, and must also be treated. ADD symptoms are more apparent in girls who are puberty during PMS and as estrogen levels decline in menopausal perimenopausal women or during menopaus.
Diagnosis
Doctors might not be able to diagnose ADD in women due to the fact that they are mistakenly thinking that it is more common in males. Women with ADD are more emotional than other women, particularly when they enter puberty, have PMS, or enter menopausal perimenopausal phase. They may be highly impatient and go into things in full swing instead of arranging their lives properly. Depression can be a result of or is a result of the disorder.