The National Resource Center on ADHD suggests the following strategies for women struggling with ADHD.
- Understand and accept your ADHD challenges instead of judging and blaming yourself.
- Identify the sources of stress in your daily life and systematically make life changes to lower your stress level.
- Simplify your life.
- Seek structure and support from family and friends.
- Get expert parenting advice.
- Create an ADHD friendly family that cooperates and supports one another.
- Schedule daily time outs for yourself.
- Develop healthy self-care habits, such as getting adequate sleep and exercise and having good nutrition.
- Focus on the things you love.
Click on Women and ADHD and Treatment for Women with ADHD to learn more.
Source
National Resource Center on ADHD, Women and ADHD, What We Know series. Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Landover, MD. 2004.
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