The female hormone cycle and the impact it must have on their mood must be confusing.

At the best of times, what do you think of the most common confusions that a chemical explanation might help in their understanding of oneself?

I think one of the things that I see consistently in women, and particularly ADHD women, is our inner critic being really loud.

There's a lot of self-judgment and blame and

like, why am I not able to do this? Why? What's wrong with me? Feeling this real inner critic of

because no one's taught us. This information has been removed for girls and women, you know,

no one's sitting down with us at 11 years on saying right these hormones are coming in and they're

going to be really powerful and this is what they're going to do and this is how you're going to track your

cycle and this is what your mood might be like and this is how you need to adapt your lifestyle at

different times of your cycle no one's doing that we're just powering through pushing through

and leading to a lot of burnout actually in adrenal fatigue because we're not

honouring this ebb and flow that's happening within us. And as a result, we can see real

flare-ups of things like anxiety, insomnia, low mood that actually have a really strong

hormonal link and perhaps aren't a mental health condition. But it's so misunderstood.

And no one's on picking it.

So I think it's huge.

Are there any other consequences of lack of awareness of how the hormone cycle can

interact with the ebbs and flows of one's ADHD traits?

I think that impacts huge.

I think if it blows my mind, I makes make me really quite agree the fact that hormones are

just barely if ever considered in ADHD diagnosis in management in women because they are

fundamental to how ADHD shows up in women and there is so much that can be done but women are

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