Dr. Asad Rafi

You know, we need to be using these platforms in the best possible way to help others.

Absolutely.

There are common themes.

People who have not been listened to.

They've not been heard.

They've not been understood.

And as I said, they've not been validated.

And that leads to almost a chronic distrust of doctors like me.

And the first piece of work I've got to do is to try and rebuild that trust.

And I often say that there's nothing new that I'm going to tell you today.

My job is to join those dots, to help you to understand how everything connects and ultimately to help you to understand yourself better.

So yeah, absolutely.

We're in a situation where we're seeing many women who come to our practice, who seek out that help and support because they've not been given the right answers in the past.

I can think of many.

And I think one of the most recent cases that I'd seen really brings home to roost a lot of the issues that women, not necessarily with ADHD, but just women in general,

tend to demonstrate, which is significant sacrifice.

And this particular case has sat with me on a personal level for, well, since the moment that I met this family.

And it was a young boy who had been brought to clinic with mum and dad to understand whether or not he had ADHD, which he did.

And mum kept intimating to me that she wanted some time by herself.

And I wasn't sure as to what that conversation was likely to be about.