Dr. Asad Rafi

The wrong treatments happen.

And therefore, there's going to be that chronic distrust and therefore resentment.

We do.

And I think I can understand that particular comment.

However, what I will say is this.

Many of the people that I see, many of the women that I see have actually been really successful.

But it's important how we define success.

Success doesn't always come from, you know, your bank balance or it doesn't come from your occupational achievements or your academic success.

Look at your relationships, look at friendships, look at yourself as a parent and stop giving yourself such a hard time.

You know, those of us who have ADHD have huge, huge expectations of ourselves.

Forget the wider world, and there's huge expectations there as well, but we have huge internal expectations of ourselves.

We've got to manage those.

But going back to that question, yes, many people will say, you know, I haven't achieved my true potential.

I haven't achieved what I felt that I was capable of achieving, and I need to understand why.

And that's how we frame the reason why they come to see us.

And that certainly becomes the starting point to that conversation.

And as I say, there are inherently super capable individuals.

ADHD comes with significant strengths.

I hate it when it's framed as a superpower as such.

I don't see it like that.