Dr. Kieran Kennedy

Yeah.

Absolutely.

And part of the reason I love this work as well is when we get the diagnosis right and we prescribe the right treatment and it works and maybe someone's also getting psychology support and things, when it all sings like that, it can be absolutely life-changing for people.

And there's heaps of different things I hear from people in terms of how it helps them, but it's always so rewarding to come back and meet someone for a follow-up session after we've started medication and to have them say, oh my God, I never realized that other people's brains aren't just constantly full of noise and random songs and thoughts and looking at that bird outside the window.

You know, people actually feeling like their brain quiet, you know, it quiets down.

Even that can just be life changing for people.

So it can be really, really helpful and effective.

Absolutely, yeah.

And I think this is really, really important because I think a lot of the stuff, and especially what we see online about ADHD, is very medication-focused.

And I think especially that's a bit of a worry sometimes for parents in terms of kids.

But definitely there are massively kind of effective treatments for ADHD that don't involve medication whatsoever.

There's ADHD-specific psychology and coaching, and obviously that takes a little bit more work and time than taking a tablet, but that is just as effective for a lot of people as a medication.

So there are definitely things on that front.

And then we also know, which I really froth over as well, we know that there's a lot of things just lifestyle and physical health wise that can help improve ADHD as well.

We actually know that exercise and sport can kind of cause a dopamine change in the brain in the same way certain doses of medication can.

So regular exercise and activity for people with ADHD is in a way also actually treating and improving ADHD symptoms.

Diet, sleep, looking after your mood and anxiety levels, all of these things can be massively helpful to improving ADHD.

And so sometimes what we do is work with people around those things and we might never actually touch medication at all.

A hundred percent.

And I think that's when I first especially started getting into the media and speaking kind of work in medicine was because people were sort of like, this is kind of weird for a person.