Why ADHD Can Feel Worse During Perimenopause
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What if the things you’ve spent years blaming yourself for have less to do with discipline or motivation than you thought?
ADHD in women can go unrecognized for years, sometimes until midlife when the strategies that once helped you cope suddenly stop working.
In this episode of All About You, Dr Shauna Watts and Lareena Brown explore why ADHD can be so difficult to recognize in women and why the signs may become more noticeable during midlife and perimenopause.
What You’ll Hear About:
👉 Why ADHD can look different in women
👉 Why some women aren’t diagnosed until midlife
👉 The connection between ADHD and executive function
👉 How masking and coping strategies can hide ADHD symptoms
👉 ADHD, food, binge eating and “food noise”
👉 Why self-compassion can be an important part of understanding ADHD
👉 Practical ways women can begin working with their brains rather than against them
This is a conversation about recognizing patterns, questioning the stories we’ve told ourselves, and understanding why some things may have always felt harder than they seemed to for everyone else
Listen to the full episode of All About You to hear the conversation.
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Chapters
00:00 Why ADHD Is Being Diagnosed Later in Women
02:32 Why ADHD Looks Different in Women
05:45 The “Buzzing Brain” and Internal Hyperactivity
07:33 ADHD, Estrogen and Perimenopause
10:06 What Is Executive Function?
13:16 ADHD, Time Blindness and Eating Patterns
18:17 Masking ADHD: When Competence Hides the Symptoms
20:03 The Connection Between ADHD and Binge Eating
23:27 ADHD and Food Noise
26:24 Why Traditional Diet Advice May Not Work for ADHD
29:44 Practical ADHD Strategies: Alarms and Body Doubling
33:12 ADHD, Shame and Self-Compassion
42:35 How to Get an ADHD Diagnosis as an Adult
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