Dr. Alex George

I mean, it's kind of a blessing and a curse with ADHD, I think, in some sense, because you have an opportunity to use your creativity to make content.

It can become very much a dopamine driver in itself.

But equally, there can be a lot of noise and messages and stuff that you're just kind of exposed to and see that can definitely be overstimulating.

But I don't know that in of itself...

being in this space and having this public public platform is negative with adhd i just think that the change for me that it was the change of going from someone who was just like a regular person the regular following to someone who's still regular but suddenly has a really big following that kind of shift was was quite big for me um but no i enjoy the creativity i love that side of it um i think i just have to learn and i have been learning to manage the risk of becoming too drawn into it

to allowing it to become too much of my identity, I guess.

There's Alex and then there's Dr. Alex.

I think that's quite an important distinction.

Listen, most of the overstimulation I experience is actually around people in certain circumstances.

So rather than being so overstimulated by noise online, which actually I can create a gap from, I can just put the phone down and easily go, I'm feeling a bit chuck it aside.

What gets me usually is if I end up in a place where there's lots of noise, there's loads of people, a lot of people talking to me, I'm having to like present myself to different people.

all of a sudden I can feel very overwhelmed and the overstimulation can feel like being on edge.

Not necessarily an overt anxiety, but just feeling like, oh, too much.

And agitation actually is a good way I describe.

I feel a bit agitated.

I suddenly feel frustrated.

I'm like, oh, I can't, you know...

just need space you have this desire to remove yourself you you feel this sense of like i need to get out and yeah often i the only way to resolve that is to go to a quiet room put my hair dryer on which of course was my last time it's over here is the highlight right there um put the hair dryer on and calm down and that's the only way i'm able to kind of do it and

I don't know how much of that is ADHD.

I mean, a large part of it, but I'm obviously at the moment going through assessment for ASD as well.