Dr. Yath Ramesh

I think that an apology itself...

probably does i'm thinking back actually you know as you asked me this question to um when the health care service received a clap during the uh covid pandemic and i'm thinking that it might be an insult uh to women actually to to simply receive an apology uh about this i think what they actually want to see is action they actually want to see services

potentially being redesigned to recognize the complexity to be able to handle a formulation where there are multiple things going on without being streamlined into one box to be able to access therapy where you aren't told that you need to change yourself in order to be able to access it so i think once women see that then you won't need to give an apology

So I want the listeners of this podcast to know

that the assessment and treatment process for ADHD is and should always be a unique and individual experience for you.

I want you to know that the process and path of understanding ADHD is there to help you with joining up the dots of your life and you need to be seen for both your strengths and your challenges.

I also want you to know that there is no

algorithm that's going to tell us what we do next.

It's going to be based on your experiences and based around how to bring out the strengths in you and help you to get through those next few years as well.

I want the listeners of this podcast to know that the assessment and treatment process of ADHD

is and should always be a unique and individual one.

And most importantly, and I guess, you know, I'll go a bit deep here, but this sort of ties into my own personal mission.

So I grew up with a parent who had a severe mental illness and has a severe mental illness, and it's my mother, and she's had it through all of my life.

she's also the person who made me who i am today what i learned from seeing her life is that it's possible to both suffer and thrive at the same time but to be able to lean into your thrive state you need to be able to seem to be seen as you the whole you

with all your quirks, your strengths, and your challenges.

I want the listeners of this podcast to be able to walk away from this knowing that there are clinicians who can help you with being seen for the whole you so that you can get an individualized plan that best fits your life and helps you to move forward.

Oh, Alex, so first of all, I have to have a timer on my phone.

And if I forget to put the timer, then those clothes could stay there for days.

So yeah, I totally relate to that.

So with ADHD, you have the double whammy of the fact that