Women With Attention Deficit Disorder

The goal for you, and what is critical in order to restructure your life, is to truly enjoy the kind of woman you are even if you don’t fit a traditional mold.

As we discussed earlier, many people just fall off your radar screen. Why not make big list of all the people in your life you want to remember? This goes beyond a list of people’s birthdays. I’m talking about just remembering their existence on a frequent basis. Brainstorm all the people you want to remember who are important to you in some way an

Yet when the friend is no longer present, the woman with AD/HD cannot always hold onto the intensity of that emotional experience, or even to its memory. In her friend’s absence, a woman with AD/HD often becomes immersed in urgent-seeming issues, which all but obliterate thoughts of her friend. Moved to a back burner, the friend, however treasured,

Women with AD/HD often move away from relationships in the initial stages of forming friendships because of their difficulty in making small talk or difficulty with finding the words that they want to say when they want to say them. Sometimes it is as difficult to find the words in your messy mind as it is to find a paper on your messy desk.

Women with AD/HD feel such an energy drain just trying to keep their lives together. Because they feel so different from others, even if they do begin to form a relationship, they soon begin to feel misunderstood.

Because of this she may push people away instead of setting limits that actually would allow her to grow closer to people, a goal which is often her true desire.

She feels a need to protect herself, both from bombarding stimulation as well as from feeling wounds to her vulnerable self-image that she has developed. She does this through hiding and separating from relationships.

Being overwhelmed, overloaded, and overworked, being non-assertive, engaging in negative self-talk, and being highly reactive with quickly changing moods can all leave women locked in a state of depression. Guilt prevents them from enjoying life until their work is done. Since their work is never done, this also often prevents them from enjoying li

To prevent hearing, “You’re not good enough,” they’ll keep saying yes for even a morsel of good feedback.