Dr. Asad Rafi

I think that's the best...

way of demonstrating any form of remorse.

They have every right to feel resentful for the reasons that you've just described there because their condition and their presentation hasn't been understood.

And I think we're putting a lot of pressure on women

people like teachers, parents, even if we look at primary care, GPs, who, dare I say, are tasked with trying to understand.

They don't realize this.

You know, I've had a cohort of GPs that I've just trained recently.

And the first question I ask them is, how many people do you think you see with ADHD on a daily basis in a clinic?

And out of 40 people, let's say, for example, on average, they'd say about two or four.

Once we'd done the training, once we'd helped them to understand the emotional presentation, the physical presentation, by the end of those two days, they were like, oh my God, this is more than 50% of our caseload.

That's how significant it is.

Now, they are the people who are ultimately the gatekeepers.

That's where ADHD needs to sit.

We need to be investing that time in helping them.

And that resentment is going to come from the fact that their condition's not been fully understood.

They don't present typically, as I said before, as the DSM-5 criteria describes it.

It's more internal.

It's more emotional.

It's more physical in its nature.

And therefore, misdiagnoses happen.