Dr Purity Carr Menopause clinic

Dr Purity Carr Menopause clinic We’re a Menopause & women wellbeing clinic in Harvey Western Australia. Join the momentum | https://www.menopausemomentumnetwork.com

11/02/2026

Many women are labelled with anxiety or mood disorders when the real drivers are hormonal sensitivity, neurodivergence, and immune activation. ADHD, PMDD, PCOS, and histamine pathways can interact to create anxiety, mood swings, insomnia, and overwhelm that look psychiatric but are biological. Understanding what is happening in the brain and body changes everything, for the woman experiencing it and for the people around her.

10/02/2026

Fixing sleep in perimenopause and menopause is not about willpower. It is about understanding your hormones, brain chemistry, and daily rhythms. When estrogen and progesterone fluctuate, sleep becomes lighter, more fragmented, and less refreshing. Add caffeine, stress, and disrupted circadian rhythm, and insomnia becomes common. The good news is that with the right support and consistent habits, deep restorative sleep is possible again.

08/02/2026

Many women with ADHD are physically exhausted at night but mentally wide awake. This is not laziness or lack of discipline. It reflects how the ADHD brain processes dopamine, norepinephrine, and stress. When sleep is disrupted, focus, mood, hormones, and metabolic health all suffer, especially in midlife and menopause. Understanding your brain is the first step to retraining it. Better sleep is possible with the right strategy and consistency.

03/02/2026

Progesterone is the brain’s natural tranquilliser. In ADHD, low or fluctuating progesterone can drive anxiety, poor sleep, and emotional overload. Calming the nervous system is how focus improves.

01/02/2026

Testosterone is not just a male or s*x hormone. In women it acts in the brain as a neuromodulator, supporting dopamine and norepinephrine, the core neurotransmitters involved in ADHD, attention, motivation, learning, mood, and sleep. This is why optimising testosterone can be a game changer for some women when estrogen and progesterone are in place.

28/01/2026

Estrogen helps the ADHD brain stay online, supporting focus, motivation, and emotional control.

As women move through perimenopause and menopause, their estrogen levels drop or swing up and down, and this affects how...
27/01/2026

As women move through perimenopause and menopause, their estrogen levels drop or swing up and down, and this affects how the brain works. Estrogen helps the brain stay organised, focused, motivated, and calm. It supports memory, clear thinking, emotional control, and good sleep. When estrogen is low or unstable, the brain can feel overwhelmed and “wired but tired,” leading to anxiety, poor sleep, brain fog, irritability, and difficulty concentrating. This is why ADHD symptoms often get worse at this stage of life, and why ADHD medications may not work properly unless estrogen levels are first stabilised. #

26/01/2026

What’s your experience with insomnia?

Clonidine can be a game-changer for sleep in women with ADHD.

How clonidine works:
Clonidine is an alpha-2 adrenergic agonist used at very low doses at night.
It reduces excess norepinephrine tone, calming a busy brain and improving sleep initiation without sedation.
It can be used alone or alongside stimulants, especially when sleep is disrupted.

Talking point:
Optimising sleep is often the missing link in ADHD treatment in perimenopause and menopause.

21/01/2026

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I describe it as an antibiotic diet just like you take antibiotics to heal, you do not need them forever. This is a reset that allows the body and nervous system to stabilise, before thoughtfully reintroducing the foods you care about.

This is not restriction.
It is restoration.

By Dr Purity Carr.

21/01/2026

Non-stimulant ADHD treatment when tone is low

Some ADHD brains are under-aroused.
Focus is low, initiation is hard, and the brain switches off easily.

In this pattern, treatment aims to raise norepinephrine tone.
Think of it as turning the volume up to a normal level, not overstimulating the brain.

Non-stimulant options can help restore steady alertness and improve focus when the issue is low tone, not overactivation.

Understanding tone guides treatment.

18/01/2026

How ADHD stimulants actually work

Stimulants do not give you focus.
They amplify dopamine and norepinephrine signalling in the brain.

These chemicals improve attention, initiation, and working memory by strengthening the signal in the prefrontal cortex.

In midlife women, fluctuating estrogen reduces dopamine efficiency.
The result is shorter duration, more side effects, and the feeling that stimulants “don’t work like they used to”.

This is not failure or dependence.
It is changed neurochemistry.

When we understand the biology, we treat smarter, not harder.

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2/5 Haywood Street
Harvey, WA
6220

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 12pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+61481224333

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