Dr. Alex George

It's almost like, oh, you have ADHD, but you're a woman.

Like, can you have ADHD if you're a woman?

You know, and I think that that kind of, not necessarily overt sometimes, although it can be, that's a conscious kind of, hmm, is it really ADHD?

It means that people get rejected and they don't, you know, they think it's just like made up or jumping on the trend.

I mean...

This whole thing recently, I think, is utterly outrageous, this whole idea that we have an over-diagnosis of ADHD.

It's factually incorrect.

I mean, a Lancet study published only a few months ago looking at 9 million GP records found a diagnostic rate of 0.32% on the GP records of a very broad spectrum of people.

We know that the true prevalence of ADHD is about 4%.

That's 10 times less people diagnosed than have it.

And so, you know, it's really frustrating, this over-diagnostic thing, this idea that, you know, just men have it.

It's hugely damaging for women.

So I really sympathize with this person, this lady that sent this question in.

And I would just really encourage people...

to try and, first of all, be kind, try and understand.

When there's something that you don't understand, rather than rejecting it, try and learn about it.

A human flaw that I think I witness a lot is that when we don't understand something, we don't trust it.

So this is where ignorance often comes from.

Because we don't know about something, we kind of push it away, reject it, or think like, this can't be real because I don't understand it.

If we approached it and said, well, actually, what is ADHD?