![]() She goes into things full swing rather than step-by-step. A woman may plan her whole education or life in one day and need for it to happen immediately. Women with ADD may also be impatient about life and events. Other women with this disorder are able to maintain their composure yet still feel anxious and annoyed. Minor nuisances can cause major agitation. These women may be impatient either visibly or internally or act impulsively. So they may avoid these situations altogether. Standing in lines, sitting in waiting rooms and being placed on hold for lengthy waits drives some women with ADD to the brink. If a hyperfocused woman does manage to break away from what she’s engrossed in, she may wander aimlessly and forget what she’s doing. Hyperfocusing puts a strain on the family. Family members may carry on conversations and not be heard. Hyperfocusing can last for hours, days and longer and makes it difficult to break for important matters. While it may be difficult to focus on some things, a woman may hyperfocus on that which interests her and be unable to shift her attention. Hyperfocusing, the opposite of inattention, also poses problems and can coexist with symptoms of inattention. Adult life for these women is often the same. Yet the subjects or activities they found fun, interesting or exciting didn’t pose such a problem. Many women daydreamed through school when they were younger. Rather, the ability to focus for most women with ADD is based on interest and whether the activity is stimulating. So it doesn’t mean they can never maintain attention. ![]() The problem is women with ADD struggle with the inability to regulate attention. Maintaining a home, participating in family activities, staying in touch with friends, even holding down a job can be a major challenge. These women are often unable to keep up with life’s many demands. They’re hypoactive, unable to muster the energy to do much of anything. Many women with ADD are at the other extreme. She may be unable to sit and play games or read to her children unless she finds the activities stimulating. Hyperactive women may go at full speed until they crash from the overload.įamily life can also suffer with a hyperactive mother. Women with ADD can be at either end of the spectrum, either hyperactive or hypoactive (underactive). Instead, each woman has a mixture severe enough to impair some areas of life. While there are a multitude of characteristics, most women with the disorder don’t have every symptom. Each person’s experience with ADD is unique. This makes detection unlikely and diagnosis difficult. Some are more commonly seen in women and opposite the more recognized symptoms seen in men. However, adult ADD, especially as it appears in women, often goes unrecognized. It cripples their self-esteem, their families, their lives, their work and their relationships.”ĪDD, also known as Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), affects between three and five percent of the population. According to Sari Solden, in her book Women with Attention Deficit Disorder, “Almost all women find that life today is complex, upsetting or frustrating, but they are still able to meet most of demands reasonably well… For women with untreated Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), however, the demands of daily life can be crippling.
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