Dr. Coleman Noctor

And I think we're probably in that now.

It's all of the above.

So I think with, obviously with awareness, you allow yourself to be more informed as to what that might be.

And if I go back to...

my school days, I can say, gosh, there's a few guys in my year definitely would have had something like that or they would have had something like that and never got that level of diagnosis or whatever.

I also go back to the early years of when I was working in CAMHS in the 90s.

We would have had, say for example, just look at ADHD.

We would never have thought of ADHD in girls unless it was really, really obvious.

Looking back, what I know now, if I had that knowledge then, there would have been a lot more kids getting diagnosed with ADHD back then.

And I see a lot of these girls and women in their 30s and 40s presenting now.

They were probably the ones that were in CAMHS that we missed back then, you know, that are now coming through that.

That level of awareness, obviously, the more you assess, the more you'll find.

The more you know what it is, the more assessment requests you'll have.

There's also an over-pathologizing issue as well.

So, you know, I think we've gotten into, we've moved away from mental health promotion and a little bit into mental illness promotion.

So you can't go on TikTok and people are saying...

Have you ever forgotten your keys?

You've got ADHD.

Do you like to put things back where they belong?

You've got OCD, you know, which is clearly not helpful because there's a spectrum of all of these conditions.