Dr Helen Wall

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ADHD Chatter · Doctor (25 years experience): ADHD Women Need To Stop Doing THIS | Dr Helen Wall · 11 May 2026 podcast

If I've got colleagues, I've got GP colleagues who've said that very thing to me.

How can we expect women to know what's going on here?

And it needs to change.

And that's part of my sort of motivation because I don't want my daughter, who is ADHD, I don't want her to get to her perimenopause, menopause, which is a long way off, hopefully, and end up in that position.

You know, I don't want her to have to fight to be believed, fight to be heard.

The silver lining is that having ADHD is not a failing or, you know, you're not broken.

There's so many positive things to being, having ADHD, you know, and obviously we can generalise, but the women that I meet with ADHD are often some of the most emotionally intelligent, intuitive people.

uh creative women you know if you're in a crisis with a deadline you want that woman with adhd in your corner you know nothing's going to get done as quick as that woman with adhd fighting for you um you know if i ever have a crisis i should be fine now because i've got lots of women with adhd that would come in my corner so you know i'm happy um

But, you know, there's so many positives to it.

But I think the difficulty is, as a society, we often talk about it as a deficit rather than a difference.

We need to celebrate it as a difference and stop seeing it as a negative thing.

And that comes from, you know, right from the very fact that we're being criticized for over-diagnosing it.

There was a study done not so long ago.

I think it was 9,000 GP records were analyzed.

And the number of ADHD diagnoses in men and women was only, I think it was about 0.32%.

So we are massively under-diagnosing it, probably because everybody's sat on waiting lists waiting to be seen.

But we're certainly, you know, we've got evidence we're not over-diagnosing it.

We're just not seeing what's there in plain sight.

Yes, exactly.

We're massively under-diagnosing it.

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