Hormones Got Your Attention? What to Know About ADHD in Menopause Kathleen Nadeau, PhD (Episode 189)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Women and girls have historically been overlooked when it comes to ADHD. Now experts understand that many girls and women do indeed have ADHD. It just looks different, and estrogen has a big role in how it plays out and in how we treat it, which becomes especially important once we hit the menopause transition. For women with ADHD–and many are just being diagnosed for the first time in midlife–the fluctuation and decline of estrogen levels can make their condition much harder to manage, which is something that has historically been completely overlooked. This week we dive into it all with internationally recognized authority on ADHD, Kathleen Nadeau, PhD.

Kathleen Nadeau, PhD, is founder of The Chesapeake Center and is a frequent lecturer on topics related to ADHD. She is the author or co-author of over a dozen books related to ADHD, including her latest on older adults, Still Distracted After All These Years. The Chesapeake Center - ADHD, Learning and Behavioral Health (www.thechesapeakecenter.com) is now one of the largest private ADHD specialty centers in the US. Dr. Nadeau is now focused on the development of the Chesapeake Advanced ADHD Training Institute (ChAATI) to provide master classes for mental health professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of complex ADHD. The introductory seminar series featuring Dr. Nadeau will be available in the coming months through www.chaati.com.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform your best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.8	Hello, Strong Feisty Women.
0:33.2	I am so happy to be back, and I hope you all are well.
0:37.0	So I have a very much requested show for you this week.
0:41.8	About a year ago, Mel Robbins, who, if you don't know, is a very, very popular podcaster,
0:49.3	shared that at the age of 47, she had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
0:55.9	otherwise known as ADHD. And she talks about how she is part of a huge population of
1:03.5	kind of lost women, you know, who were never diagnosed. Because when our generation,
1:09.8	when we were girls, ADHD or hyperactivity, as it was called,
1:14.9	was something that it was a boy's condition. It was something that you didn't really look for
1:20.0	in girls. And like so many things, it's not that girls and women don't have or get ADHD or it's not something that affects us.
1:30.5	It's because it presents differently in us.
1:34.5	But again, like so many things, nobody ever thought to consider or study that.
1:40.0	So we've been pretty left out to suffer.
1:43.8	And I have heard from a lot of you asking for a show on
1:47.2	this. Some of you have recently discovered it yourself after flogging yourself for literally your
1:52.9	whole lives, from being quote unquote scatterbrained and suffering with tons of anxiety
1:58.0	and finding life absolutely unmanageable once you hit menopause.
2:03.0	And others have told me that you had been diagnosed earlier, but once you hit perimenopause
2:08.6	or the menopause transition, you couldn't manage it any longer. The stuff that once worked for you
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