People with ADHD who are also anxious tend to do better because the anxiety tightens the screw of focus.

An awful lot of people with ADHD will use stress in order to focus.

But then when you come into menopause, 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 and

the strategies that you used before no longer work because the biological landscape has changed.

Dr. Judas Morin is a Cambridge educated psychiatrist. Medical professional and expert in all things

ADHD. Specializing in female hormones. Permission is to help ADHD women manage their

symptoms better during menopause.

I want to go through hormone by hormone. Starting with estrogen. What role does this play in a woman?

How is it affected by menopause and what knock-on effect can this have on a neurodiverse person?

So estrogen, as it drops, you can see an impact throughout the body and particularly in the brain.

You see lower levels of dopamine, lower levels of serotonin. Progesterone. throughout the body and particularly in the brain you see lower levels of dopamine lower levels of serotonin progesterone after the body produces an egg there's something

called the corpus luteum which is like the leftover bit and that produces progesterone for many

women progesterone is calming but for some women progesterone is kind of depressing and so they get premenstrual

dysphoria testosterone how does that play its part so testosterone testosterone is metabolized to estrogen by aromatization.

As women's estrogen levels drop, we also see a drop in their testosterone.

And there's some emerging clinical evidence that maybe it really helps with rain fog and clear thinking and energy.

What hormone would be the key villain in that story and what moods might that hormone be responsible for?

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