
Understanding Girls with ADHD
Children and Adults with ADHD (CHADD)
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Can Birth Control Pills Affect ADHD Symptoms?
For girls they tend to internalize these feelings of anxiety and it becomes really the bigger struggle for them. If ADD symptoms can be proved the anxiety usually improves without treating it specifically. We have a question now from Deborah who was wondering if hormone medications such as birth control pills which can be prescribed for a variety of reasons in adolescence and early adulthood, can those affect ADHD symptoms throughout the month? Can they change those symptoms or presentation of those symptoms? Yes that absolutely does work.
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