Ella McCrystal

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542 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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ADHD Chatter · Trauma Expert: 3 Oddly Specific ADHD Trauma Issues · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I was highly emotional and highly obsessive.

And I think I was too much for my mum, even before she realised what was going on with my dad.

I think she found me to be...

In fact, I spoke about this to one of my mum's friends after I did this podcast and she'd watched the podcast and she said, do you know what?

I think if your mum had known that you had ADHD, it would have made so much difference to how she treated you.

And I don't think it would have done.

I don't think my mum was equipped to deal with me.

I think I was too much for her.

I don't blame myself for that.

I just don't think she had the skill set to manage that.

a child that was so... I lived in dreamland.

I was like a little... I believed in fairies and all the things that little girls should be allowed to believe in.

But I think that alongside not being able to regulate emotion, crying every five minutes, and then being obsessed with things and needing the same thing over and over again...

And then on top of that, finding out that my dad had been sexually abusing me and I was the one to reveal that, I think that was way too much for her and she just made me the scapegoat in the family.

So it was very much, and I know a lot of people that haven't had that type of trauma, that are ADHD and are very hyper with it or very...

as difficult with it they are made the scapegoat and they become the receptive container for everybody else's frustrations that in itself is a trauma because you will self-abandon and you will feel like nobody understands you and you will go into the world carrying that and that's why we see all the sort of habits of masking and being the chameleon and all those things which can be gifts as well as a curse start to come into play and

I think just I'm probably quite relentless, which has served me well in my career.

I think, I mean, she used to do this thing where she was, it was quite fun.

I liked it anyway, where she'd do magic tricks.

Mm-hmm.

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