Francesca Rudkin

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The Little Things · When ADHD and perimenopause collide · 22 May 2026 podcast

If I have to step foot inside the building, it's like the biggest inconvenience of my life.

I mean, what is going on?

That's just ridiculous.

You're listening to The Little Things and our guest on the podcast today is host of No Such Thing as Normal podcast, Sonia Gray, talking about ADHD and midlife.

We'll be back after the break.

Welcome back.

Sonia, okay, so we've had a bit of a chat about what it's like when ADHD and perimenopause collide.

So what can we do about it?

Like medication can be really useful.

I'm surprised that someone didn't kind of go, that's really interesting.

We should be studying this.

So, okay, so there's not a lot of research, there's not a list of one to ten things that we can do to make this better.

Where can women start then when it comes to dealing with their ADHD and perimenopause?

Sonia, if we go back to medication, should women also be aware of the fact that they might have to alter their ADHD medications?

Like if things have been working up to now and they're suddenly not working, is that something that they should be just conscious of looking at?

Short term, long lasting, slow build ups, hard crashes, slow crashes, all sorts of different things.

And that comes back to what we spoke about at the beginning.

If you're a woman who's in perimenopause, who's starting to wonder and thinking about the diagnosis, diagnosis is great, but there is a road to travel afterwards.

And I actually, I'm not saying that as a negative.

I'm actually trying to say that as a positive because if somebody had explained to me how long it would take for us to get our daughter to a really good place, to find the drugs that would work, to, you know,

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