Psychologist explains ADHD 🤯

1. UPUnnamed psychologist0:00

   So someone with ADHD, typically, e-- no matter how together they may appear, senior, professional, successful, slick, will undoubtedly have struggled in their earlier life to get by, to fit in, to kind of match their potential. And, you know-

2. SPSpeaker0:14

   Mm

3. UPUnnamed psychologist0:14

   ... they'd have heard messages, and I've not worked with anyone to date that hasn't had an experience around this, where there may be that mismatch. "If only you tried harder. You've got great potential, but just try harder." You know, you hear lazy, not trying hard enough. You go through this process of being delivered negative labels, maybe well-intentioned ones, maybe ones that to someone neurotypical wouldn't have such a profound effect. If you're getting them in multiple scenarios, and you're being told by people you're too much, not enough, A, it's really confusing as an identity piece, but you internalize that. How can that not affect your self-esteem, how you feel and know you are perceived in the world? So you carry that through life, and you feel... Again, clients I work with will often talk about how they experience whether you call it imposter syndrome or not being good enough. So there's always a sense of trying to prove yourself.

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