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Adult Women With ADD Face Daily Challenges

Adult adhd inattentive type women who suffer from adhd symptoms women face daily challenges. They are often misdiagnosed or ignored because many doctors consider ADD as a attention deficit disorder in women that affects boys and men. Additionally there are many ADD symptoms in women change with hormones, and become more evident during puberty, and then resurfacing when estrogen levels decrease during PMS or perimenopausal.

Signs and symptoms

Women with adult ADD tend to be irritable, impatient, annoyed and impulsive. They are more likely to get involved in projects, like relationships or careers without planning them in advance. Many of them have a high level of sensitivity to rejection which makes it difficult for them to cope with the real or perceived rejection. They are more likely to engage in sexually dangerous behaviors than women who don't have ADD like early sex, casual sex, multiple partners and unprotected pregnancies. Depression is often a co-existing condition or result of ADD and needs to be treated. ADD symptoms are more evident in girls who are puberty, PMS, and as estrogen levels decrease in perimenopausal and menopausal changes.

Diagnosis

While ADD symptoms of women are similar to those in men, doctors might not recognize the symptoms due to misguided assumptions that ADD is more prevalent in boys. Women with ADD tend to be more emotional, particularly when they are puberty, PMS and in menopausal and perimenopausal hormone levels change. They can become highly emotional and impulsive, and can be caught in the full swing instead of planning their lives carefully. Depression is often a co-existing disorder or a result.