Dr Helen Wall
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 May
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What's driving this?
And if you spend your life chronically having to mask, which a lot of these women have done,
overcompensate, overprepare, try and copy facial expressions, practice, rehearse.
And these are all things that patients have told me they've done and women have told me they've done.
I had a lady, a patient who told me that she had a really great high-flying career.
on the surface of it she was just absolutely smashing life and she was smashing life that they can't take that away from her but she said that every night like she said every night when I go home I have to look what meetings I've got tomorrow what I'm supposed to be doing and I can spend three to four hours of my evening preparing for the day after and she did that every single night
Now, that might seem like, well, that's not a cost, you know, that's what you have to do.
But actually, the cost of that to her was huge because it meant she hadn't had a relationship for 10 years.
You know, she didn't have children and she wanted children.
she rarely went out with her friends and engaged with them because she just had to put so much effort into the thing that she was doing to focus and to get by and to be exactly what you know what everybody expected of her in this role and I think that's what we miss with women we miss the hidden costs so when for example you know my colleagues say oh well that lady can't have
ADHD because she's been to university she's got a good job she's never been in trouble with the police and I've heard all of these things said the frustrating bit is the next question should be is but what was the cost of that to that woman you know what was the hidden cost and there were always hidden costs when women have been mislabeled misdismissed and misdiagnosed and
with neurodivergence until late on in life.
And that's what we see unravel then when the hormones go into flux in perimenopause and they just can't keep up anymore and keep that mask up.
Complete meltdown.
And this happens all the time.
I see parents who will say to me, you know, I think my child, my daughter has ADHD.
You know, often they've got a parent or a sibling and they recognise it.
They know something's not right.
And unfortunately now, and I think this is the same for the whole country, but certainly where I work, we can't refer a child for an ADHD assessment.
We have to signpost the parents to go back to the school and ask the school to get educational psychology, et cetera, involved.
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