Is It Perimenopause or Postpartum?

Is It Perimenopause or Postpartum?

When the Cut’s parenting columnist Amil Niazi had her third baby at 41, she was confident she could get through what came next. Over a year later, she’s afraid she’ll never feel “normal” or like herself again.

Let’s Talk About Perimenopause and ADHD

Perimenopausal women with ADHD feel abandoned by healthcare. Few clinicians are knowledgeable about female presentations of ADHD, so women are left to untangle a messy knot of hormones, ADHD symptoms, medications, and lifestyle factors on their own. And science offers little help. Fewer than one percent of all brain imaging studies focus on female-specific health factors, revealing little data on how hormonal shifts impact ADHD. Even with so lit…