Dr Shyamal Mashru

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ADHD Chatter · Psychiatrist Who's Diagnosed 10,000 Women With ADHD & Autism: "THIS Still Shocks Me!" - Dr Shyamal Mashru · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

So we treated him initially with medication.

with long-acting amphetamine-based stimulants, which, you know, they don't produce euphoric effects, so it doesn't make you want to have cocaine.

And in those cases, you have to be very careful because if someone is using cocaine on top of their stimulants, they are at increased risk of things like a heart attack or going into cardiac arrest.

So we work closely with the substance misuse team.

He remained abstinent.

He's still been abstinent for the last couple of years.

But then was the therapy work, which is the really important part in the longer term.

Because we wanted to shift him from labeling himself as just an addict to someone that had undiagnosed ADHD who was just using whatever tools was available to him to survive.

Now, his diagnosis and treatments not going to magically repair his relationships.

He still hasn't much contact with his ex-wife or his children.

but at least it allows him to carry on his life, a new chapter perhaps, with a much more positive lens.

Yeah.

So, well, they were actually a patient that had come to us for what's called a combined assessment.

So in our clinic, we have combined assessments.

In fact, one of the clinicians that does that, you know them very well, Dr. Karam Sadiq.

Yes.

He's been on this show a couple of times.

So that's quite a unique assessment where we look at both.

Now, the case of this patient was someone that actually had gone to other providers for separate autism and ADHD assessments.

Because not everyone does combined assessments, so they'd gone separately.

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