Experts Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, Dr. Ellen Littman, Dr. Patricia Quinn, Dr. Sari Solden, Dr. Sandra Kooj discuss ADHD, women, and hormones. They delve into topics like ADHD misdiagnosis in women, societal pressures, hormone impacts, and the connection between dementia and ADHD symptoms.
Understanding how hormone fluctuations impact ADHD symptoms in women.
Recognizing the societal pressures and gender role expectations affecting ADHD women.
Deep dives
Creation of Blends Program for ADHD Brain
The speaker introduces the creation of the Blends program, designed for individuals with ADHD brains. The program includes coaching sessions focused on grounding, positivity, and calming the nervous system within 10 minutes each day. The speaker emphasizes the blend of coaching, humor, and inspiration to support fast-paced ADHD brains, offering the program at a special early rate of $47.
Strengths-Based Approach to ADHD
The podcast promotes a strengths-based approach to ADHD, highlighting the importance of hope, optimism, and recognizing personal strengths. The speaker encourages flipping weaknesses into strengths and fostering self-awareness to promote personal growth and success. The focus on embracing individual brilliance and building a positive self-image resonates throughout the discussion.
Challenges Faced by ADHD Women
The episode delves into the unique challenges faced by women with ADHD, discussing the impact of hormone fluctuations on ADHD symptoms and mood changes. It explores how societal expectations, internalized symptoms, and hormonal influences can amplify struggles for ADHD women, leading to imposter syndrome and difficulties in managing multiple responsibilities.
Intersection of Hormones and ADHD
The podcast delves into the intersection of hormones, particularly estrogen, and ADHD symptoms in women. Highlighting the fluctuations in estrogen levels impacting dopamine and executive functions, the discussion emphasizes how hormonal changes throughout the menstrual cycle can intensify ADHD symptoms, offering insights into mood, emotion, and impulsivity regulation in relation to estrogen levels.
In this episode of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about women, ADHD and hormones. She starts out by thanking those female pioneers, most of whom have ADHD, for leading the charge in teaching us about what ADHD looks like in women. Experts like Dr. Kathleen Nadeau, Dr. Ellen Littman, Dr. Patricia Quinn, Dr. Sari Solden, Dr. Sandra Kooj who she has learned so much from.
Tracy shares why ADHD has always been about boys, how ADHD looks different in girls, the biggest problem among health care practitioners that impacts women, why girls/women are often misdiagnosed, who struggles more with ADHD, men or women, how societal pressures and gender role expectations affect ADHD women, her thoughts around perfectionism and ADHD, how estrogen impacts ADHD symptoms and is not stable during our lifespan, new research about hormone-related mood disorders that may impact ADHD women, whether or not there's such a thing as adult-onset ADHD, and some information on whether it is dementia or ADHD. ______________