Sonia Gray

ADHD is characterized, this is really, really basic, but characterized by insufficient dopamine or dysregulated dopamine and noradrenaline.

So in many cases, people with ADHD develop workarounds and lean on estrogen to

which is an important hormone for our brain, and lean on other pathways, neural pathways.

I was trying not to be too science-y, but I could lean this really well.

Yeah.

Raw ADHD you're left to deal with.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's quite amazing how our brains work and adjust.

And essentially, there's been a lot more effort put in over our lives to try and make up for what we perceive as being shortcomings.

So in estrogen, dopamine and noradrenaline rely so heavily on estrogen.

So when it's fluctuating, I've already dysregulated dopamine.

Dysregulated.

Sorry, I was saying deregulated.

Yeah, dysregulated is the right word.

In short, everything goes haywire and it can feel like a collision, like the chair has been pulled out from under you.

And I think still,

though, because women have no idea about this and many don't know that they even have ADHD, they're still going, what is wrong with me?

And it is nothing wrong with you.

This is a natural biological change.

And one thing I talked to the women in the workshop about, because some of them are doing it really hard, but I said, do you think there's a positive in any of this?