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

Well, I think

Self-understanding is at the core of self-esteem.

So when you can look at your life in a different lens, so you stop blaming yourself for everything and you start understanding that I have an ADHD brain, I have to approach certain tasks differently.

my brain is wired for um novelty and interest rather than dull repetitive tasks yes yes yeah you you start you can then hopefully try to modify certain circumstances in your life to suit your brain and then if you start being able to achieve the things that you are then struggling with because if you have those supports in place that helps build your morale and and the way you look at yourself

Yes, because the first thing it does is it gives you an explanation for why you struggled, right?

The next thing it does is it starts to reduce the shame.

Because shame comes in because you feel you're incompetent in some way, right?

So when you start to reduce the shame, that's when you start building that self-confidence.

And ultimately, I think the self-confidence develops when you start to develop strategies to help in those areas that you're weak in.

You're never going to be great at those things, but if you develop techniques to get around them, then you'll feel less of a bad month, for example.

It can have some real devastating consequences.

And I think the best way for me to describe this is actually through a patient that I had seen not so long ago.

So he was a university student in his final third year of his degree, which is the most important year in terms of those assignments carry the most weight towards your final grade.

Sure.

And he hadn't actually asked for the assessment his parents had because they were really worried about him.

So he was living in a house with three other housemates, students, and he wasn't coming out of his room very much.

And they actually discovered that he was self-harming.

He was cutting himself.

So they were quite panicked and they called his parents.

So his parents called him to see me.

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