Dr Shyamal Mashru
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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So your natural coping mechanism is to avoid things that are going to trigger that emotional bomb going off.
So you might, in its worst case, completely avoid relationships.
You might avoid social interactions.
I've had lots of patients tell me, oh, you know, when I was younger, I was actually a lot more sociable.
And as I've got older, I have minimal contact with people or, you know, I've tried to contact friends or they've tried to contact me rather.
And I might cancel meeting them at the last minute.
that can impact people in a work setting as well.
Because if you work in certain sectors, like certain corporate industries, you don't attend work events, like social work events.
Those are not, you know, they're not social events.
That can impact your career in some way.
So people, as a protective mechanism, they think it's a protective mechanism, will avoid situations.
And that can start to become incredibly lonely.
And loneliness in itself can have a great impact on someone.
So from a psychological perspective, loneliness naturally, as you can imagine, leads to depression, anxiety, and in some cases suicidal thoughts.
There's a lot of medical literature studied in the more elderly populations where loneliness on its own is a risk factor for mortality beyond other physical health conditions.
So loneliness can play its role in terms of affecting you mentally and physically.
Yes.
And this is actually the reason why we have all these pre-assessment forms before an ADHD assessment.
And I know they're the bane of people's lives and they often complain about doing those forms.
But there are two things that I really want to know.
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