Dr Helen Wall
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
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So there's a lot in the press, there has been a lot in the press recently about GPs are over-diagnosing ADHD.
Well, for a start, GPs don't diagnose ADHD.
We have to refer them on for a very, very thorough assessment, which takes years in some places to get.
But I would honestly say a lot of the women I see, they just don't know what's going on.
Their brains are so, you know, their executive function's gone, their emotional regulation's all over the place.
And they don't all come in going, I think I've got ADHD, I want a diagnosis of ADHD, which is what you would believe if you read some of the media articles or listened to some of the media outlets.
Some of it is just absolute burnout and complete exhaustion.
And I don't want anyone to think that I am looking for people with ADHD and I am encouraging people to have ADHD.
I think, as I said, it's just when you've seen it, it's hard to unsee it.
And one of the criticisms, one of the biggest criticisms that I get from colleagues is,
You know, everybody with perimenopause, women with perimenopause and menopause, they're bound to have some features of ADHD.
You know, they're bound to have brain fog.
They're bound to have trouble with focus, trouble with switching off, anxiety, etc.
Because that's what happens in perimenopause or menopause.
Yes, they do.
Absolutely.
And I'm not saying that's not the case.
But these women have had things right through their life going back to childhood.
They're not going to get a diagnosis of ADHD just because they woke up one day in perimenopause and suddenly they couldn't function.
This goes back and back, but nobody has seen it because of the masking.
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