450 SelfWork: Climbing the Walls: Talking ADHD In Women with Danielle Elliot
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
ADHD in women is finally being diagnosed for what it is and has been!
Understood.org, a leading resource for people with learning and thinking differences, has launched a new podcast series, Climbing the Walls, a new limited-series investigative podcast. Hosted by health and science journalist and documentarian Danielle Elliot, the podcast explores what led to new ADHD diagnoses among women ages 20–49, which nearly doubled between 2020 and 2022 (CDC).
Across six episodes, Elliot weaves together scientific explanations with personal stories, describing significant problems with such things as executive functioning and rejection sensitivity.
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work, and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:10.3 | At self-work, we discuss psychological and emotional issues and what you can do about them, |
| 0:15.7 | whether that's learning self-acceptance, taking action, or seeking therapy or treatment. |
| 0:21.3 | Eight years ago, I extended the walls of my practice to reach those of you who might already be |
| 0:26.1 | knowledgeable about middle health treatment, but also to those of you who might say you'd never |
| 0:31.3 | darken the door of a therapist. And yet, you are here. I'll answer your questions while I invite |
| 0:37.1 | you to take a few minutes for your |
| 0:39.1 | own self-work. I mean, misinformation has been out there for 30 years, but I would say in short, |
| 0:46.4 | that people weren't listening to women in the same way. Because it's not part of the medical |
| 0:50.1 | conversation, women seeking help were often diagnosed with depression, anxiety, other things |
| 0:57.3 | that treating the underlying thing often helps treat the things that result from struggling |
| 1:03.3 | with something like ADHD. Welcome to this week's edition of self-work. |
| 1:09.6 | Understood.org, who's a leading resource for people with learning and thinking |
| 1:13.1 | differences, has launched a new podcast series, Climbing the Walls. |
| 1:18.1 | It's hosted by health and science journalist and documentarian Daniel Elliott, |
| 1:23.0 | and this podcast explores why women weren't diagnosed with ADHD for so long, |
| 1:28.2 | and what led to new ADHD diagnoses among women ages 20 to 49. |
| 1:34.6 | It's actually nearly doubled between 2020 and 2022. |
| 1:39.1 | Across six episodes, Danielle Elliott weaves together scientific explanations with personal stories, including |
| 1:45.4 | her own, from the many women who know ADHD all too well. She explores big questions around |
| 1:51.3 | the surge, like, why women and why now? She says, when I was diagnosed with ADHD at 36, |
| 1:58.0 | I didn't understand how we'd miss this, not just in me, but in apparently an entire |
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