Undiagnosed ADHD, at best, can be a life-long nuisance and energy-sapper, but at worst, it can trigger the worst of mental health issues, including suicide ideation.
Unfortunately, this week's guest, Priyanka Patel, a pharmacist and who was diagnosed with ADHD at 27, knows this all too well.
She was diagnosed with depression in 2020 and, despite her efforts to try and get an ADHD assessment, was not listened to by her GP. Priyanka was then put on a variety of medications, which led to a significant decline in her mental health.
Since finally getting her ADHD diagnosis, Priyanka's life has transformed, and now she is on a mission to ensure no other woman has to go through what she did.
During this week's episode, Kate and Priyanka talk about:
- Priyanka's mental health and diagnosis story
- How Priyanka's family dealt with her diagnosis
- Focussing on all our negatives instead of our strengths
- The stigma of mental health, ADHD and medication in Indian culture
- How to approach medication for your situation
- Cultural views of neurodiversity
- How ADHD Medication works in your system
- Tips to help feel better while taking medication
- Subtle ways our ADHD symptoms creep up
- Accommodations we can choose to help ourselves
- Priyanka's work to improve NHS GPs' knowledge of ADHD symptoms in women
- Increasing awareness and screening of ADHD in GPs
Kate's new four-part workshop series, Regulating Your ADHD Nervous System, is available here.
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Kate Moryoussef is a women’s ADHD Lifestyle & Wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity, and clarity.
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