Every ADHD woman needs to hear this 💚

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   Why anxiety can temporarily boost focus in ADHD

   1. APAlex Partridge0:00

      People with ADHD who are also anxious tend to do better because the anxiety is like, um, it sort of tightens the screw of focus, basically. It helps you to focus if you're a bit stressed. So an awful lot of people with ADHD will use stress in order to focus. But then when you come into menopause or perimenopause, as your estrogen levels drop, so do your serotonin and dopamine levels. So you're left with less serotonin, less dopamine, and you're less able to focus, and you're more anxious. And that's when you tip into this crisis where actually you're overwhelmed with anxiety, your mood

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   Using stress as a coping strategy—and why it’s risky

   1. APAlex Partridge0:30

      is low, you can't focus, and the strategies that you used before no longer work-

   2. SPSpeaker0:34

      Mm

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   Perimenopause/menopause: estrogen drops and neurotransmitters follow

   1. APAlex Partridge0:35

      ... because the biological landscape has changed

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