About this episode

Lindy Hadges discusses the complexities of ADHD in high performers, women, and children, offering insights and strategies for better understanding and management.

Most conversations about ADHD stop at the diagnosis. This one goes further. ADHD expert, Lindy Hadges, gets specific across the three groups where ADHD is most misunderstood and most consequential: high performers in business and sport; women, who are being diagnosed in their mid-50s after decades of masking; and children, whose ADHD behaviours look very different at home than at school. Lindy is an ADHD specialist, clinician, and director of the ADHD Foundation Australia. She brings science, honesty and genuine compassion to a conversation that is long overdue. If someone in your life needed to hear this, send it to them. 1:45 Why the 9 to 5 desk job is one of the worst environments for the ADHD brain, and what works instead. 4:20 Brain breaks, pulsing and the panoramic gaze: practical strategies for ADHD in a corporate role. 5:55 How the ADHD brain self-medicates with stress, deadlines and adrenaline, and why that often backfires. 7:40 Why ADHD brains need protein every two hours, and why fasting may be working against the ADHD brain. 12:15 The only way to recharge an ADHD brain to 100% and why it has to be done alone. 15:15 ADHD and sleep: why the brain skips REM, the long…

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