Menopause Expert: How Menopause Impacts ADHD Women - Dr Helen Wall

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  @IDKRNBRB · 4 months ago

  I struggled my whole life with something as far as I’ve known. Didn’t know what it was. Told I have potential, need to try harder… took hours to do homework each night(compared to classmates it would take them 1/4-1/2 the time). Parents were frustrated with me… they’d all say she’s very smart, just so pokey (slow paced). I went to college to get into HR, was doing well enough then burnt out and that ended my career. I was diagnosed as having Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), some time after that, which kind of made sense but didn’t quite explain it all. Went to school again and became a Psychiatric Nurse… I wasn’t supported in my role and was picked on by my peers. I left that field too as I didn’t feel confident enough and couldn’t get the help. I still didn’t know what was wrong with me. It broke my heart that I couldn’t be in nursing anymore because of the environment…. I wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until 4 or so years after that at the age of 41.<br>I still can’t believe that even through psych nursing school ADHD wasn’t really talked about much, especially not for females.<br>I still feel like a failure even though I know what’s wrong. I’m in Canada and have been looking for HRT to help but my doctor doesn’t know enough to prescribe it and has referred me but it’s a 8-12 month wait. I’ve reached out to other locations which are also full…<br>The medical field is so behind in Canada it’s frustrating.<br>Also all along… my mom doesn’t really believe me that I could have ADHD. She doesn’t believe HRT will help me lose weight and have more energy, support my joints, help my brain fog…<br>I only work part time because I’m like an exhausted pigeon. So I don’t make a lot of money either.<br>It’s been a rough go at life.<br><br>Thanks to anyone who’s read my rambling and made it this far. Not sure what my point is other than sharing how frustrating this is.

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  @karenduhaylonsod8901 · 4 months ago

  I can&apos;t believe i have made it 60 years with this exhausting, chaotic brain to finally know why.

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  @Dancestar1981 · 4 months ago

  It’s the injustice of the whole thing that makes you angry

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  @geekcollage · 4 months ago

  My parents would never have even asked the school, they still don&apos;t believe ADHD is real. It&apos;s just a discipline or moral failing. I&apos;m middle-aged 🤷🏼

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  @alli5961 · 4 months ago

  Not so long ago and we would have just been diagnosed with hysteria in these situations😢

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  @teennaa29_GrungeGirl90 · 4 months ago (edited)

  I was diagnosed at 53 and I went through menopause at 52. &nbsp;I am now 54. &nbsp;I thought I was losing my ever-lovin mind! &nbsp;I had to have answers because I could not control the mood swings and angry outbursts. &nbsp; Getting tested made sense to try and explain what was wrong with me. &nbsp;I feel betrayed by the medical community for suffering like this my entire life since I was 13. &nbsp;I am still trying to figure out a medication regiment to keep me sane and stabilize my mood swings!<br>Everything Dr. Wall discussed hit me so hard! &nbsp;Thank you for this interview! &nbsp;I feel seen and heard ❤

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  @karieviola · 4 months ago

  I was diagnosed with ADHD at 26. I&apos;m 47 now. I&apos;m female. My ADHD has only gotten worse the older I&apos;ve gotten, esp with perimenopause. I remember trying to tell my doctor back in 2007 that when I was in my period my meds didn&apos;t work as well. He seemed confused. This is so frustrating! I&apos;m glad that it&apos;s FINALLY being recognized. I lived life in hard mode for so long.

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  @Carte-Blanche-NZ · 4 months ago

  I remember as a tiny girl thinking nobody liked me and nobody cared. A life time of thinking I had weirdo tattooed on my forehead, depression, serious anxiety to the point I had seizures. &nbsp;I finally worked out what it all is and I’m 60 and quite exhausted by it. RSD for sure. I now feel better because I research and I am working out how to make life better.

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• RO

  @rosehill9537 · 4 months ago

  The anger the grief the medical misogyny <br> we were not listened too!!

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  @ColorJoyLynnH · 4 months ago

  I am 67 years old. Just went on Social Security. I was born in 1958. The first time I heard of ADHD was when my best friend from second grade had her first child diagnosed in elementary school, in the 1980s.<br><br>I did not get diagnosed until Covid &nbsp;I spent my whole life being told that I had “SO MUCH potential” and implying that I wasn’t living up to it. <br><br>I can’t tell you how many times I found myself in some situation or another or people were asking me why I had done something that wasn’t logical to them, and I would just cry and say “I don’t know.” The last time it happened to me. I think I was 21.<br><br>I wonder how my life would have gone if I knew it wasn’t my fault. I will never know.

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  @karenharvey2549 · 4 months ago

  We just want to make sense of our struggle.

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  @Dancestar1981 · 4 months ago

  That one woman isn’t alone that’s the story of our lives for every single one of us

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