Colman Noctor

So when I was in CAMHS in the 90s, and I think about it now, like I think about all the, there's a lot of women in their 40s and 50s who are getting diagnosed with ADHD now, right, or 30s, 40s, 50s.

And those would have been some of the girls coming through CAMHS in the 90s.

Now, we would never have even considered a girl for ADHD.

It just didn't fit with that sort of thing.

And these kids were coming in as daydreamy and they were kind of drifting in and out and they weren't living up to their potential and all that sort of stuff.

And we were thinking, is it mood or is it anxiety or is it any of these things?

And I think lots of those people who are returning now were missed in those years because we weren't thinking about it from that point of view.

So to explain maybe why there's kind of an exponential rise in ADHD in adults now.

But it was kind of delusional, like that on your 18th birthday, your ADHD would go, disappear.

Yeah, so being diagnosed at 16 or 17, your childhood is nearly over now anyway.

You'll be fine.

So what benefit is it to you?

You know, again, you have to think about... But there you were as an adult.

I would certainly have been an oddity.

Certainly that wouldn't have been usual that someone would do it.

And again, from the point of view of if it wasn't the two people that were having the conversation, me and that other person, this would never have come to be.

Do you know what I mean?

It was the fact that somebody like I would never have gone looking for it.

It was certainly not something that I had featured on my radar back then.

I had the ah moment really probably in that assessment.