Dr Helen Wall
speaker
413 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
Dr Helen Wall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm very, you know, I'm very give or take medication for ADHD.
I think it's a very individual decision, individual choice.
It's not for everyone.
um but in my book i talk a lot about things that you can do if you don't want to go down the medication route um and a lot of it is about you know first of all it's that validation of what's going on understanding a bit of self-compassion and then sort of looking at your um you know if once you understand it becomes much easier to manage things doesn't it and uh yeah that's what that's what i think is helpful to women if we can give them that understanding but in order to do that
our medical colleagues need to understand it first which is which is tricky because GPs do a bit of everything you know I'm rubbish at things like neurology you know if you come to see me with a neurological condition you ain't going to get much from me and so every GP's got a little bit of knowledge about everything and often they've got a bit of a special interest where they're very keen and this is my special interest where I'm very keen so you know it's easy for me to sit here and say GPs should
And it can get, yeah, I mean, I can't even get the words out to tell you how bad this can get because I've seen quite a few women now who are just in bits, really.
We already know that perimenopause, menopause has a seven times increased suicide rate.
So the peak point of time for women to commit suicide or attempt suicide is between the ages of 45 and 55.
which, again, we don't nearly highlight enough.
And then if you throw into that ADHD and unmasking and all the issues that we've talked about that come to the fore and the surface at this point in life...
I've seen women really, really at the lowest point.
I can think of a lady off the top of my head who came in, she'd basically given up her job.
So she'd gone off sick, completely unable to sort of focus.
Brain was just felt, she described her brain as being like mush.
Everything she'd ever done to try and to get on just no longer worked for her.
And she was on the sick.
She then got sacked because she was on the sick for so long they let her go.
That started to affect her relationship.
She started to drink alcohol because she was at home all day and she was feeling really low and she needed that sort of something to lean on and she went to alcohol.
And, you know, she turned up just saying, you know, my menopause is so bad.
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