Dr Helen Wall

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ADHD Chatter · Doctor (25 years experience): ADHD Women Need To Stop Doing THIS | Dr Helen Wall · 11 May 2026 podcast

That's what we can change.

And I think that's one of the biggest factors that makes it hard for women.

You know, women with ADHD, if they were supported in an environment where their positive strengths were celebrated and embraced and not challenged and shut down and they weren't effectively swimming against the tide, which everyone with ADHD kind of is, whether you're male or female.

but probably a little bit more so because of the lack of recognition for it in girls and women.

That's, I think, what makes it really hard.

Yeah, I mean, it can even change from month to month, exactly that, with a menstrual cycle.

We see the biggest changes, I think, at times of significant hormonal flux.

So as I've said, perimenopause, puberty, pregnancy.

But even throughout a month, we know that I think the key to this is the chemical messengers in the brain.

And we know that with ADHD, the brains are wired differently.

Some parts of the brain are different in volume, etc.

And the chemical messengers signal differently.

So estrogen really supports dopamine signaling.

We really need enough estrogen and for it to be stable to have perfect dopamine signaling.

Dopamine is responsible for our motivation, our reward, our focus.

So, even throughout one month where oestrogen is rising and falling as it does in a normal cycle for a woman, when the oestrogen is higher, that can mean that she might feel more focused, more able to get on with things because of this effect on the dopamine signaling and to some extent the serotonin signaling as well.

So,

which helps with emotional regulation.

That's something we've not touched upon, but actually with women, I think there's a high degree of emotional regulation differences with women with ADHD.

And that's been shown in some of the neurobiological studies in terms of, again, the chemical messaging within the brain and the effect of hormones on that.

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