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Woman's Hour

ADHD in women, Prof Lucy Easthope, Debbie

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The number of female patients being prescribed medication for ADHD has more than doubled in recent years. The reasons for this include time spent at home during lockdown really getting to know ourselves and, increasingly, videos on social media sites. #ADHDinwomen has 2.3 billion views on TikTok. To discuss this Hayley is joined by Dr Jo Steer, a Clinical Psychologist and Josie Heath-Smith who discovered she had ADHD after watching videos online. Today sees ambulance workers across most of England and Wales walk out over pay, joining nurses, rail and postal workers who have been on strike in recent weeks. Health chiefs have warned of "extensive disruption" and a health minister has said people should take "extra care". One woman who has been keeping a close eye on all of this is Professor Lucy Easthope, Professor of Risk and Hazard at Durham University, co founder of the After Disaster Network and author of When The Dust Settles - she joins Hayley Hassall on the programme. The Taliban has banned women from attending universities in Afghanistan. Hayley Hassall is joined by the Diplomatic Correspondent for The Times, Catherine Philp, who has recently returned from Afghanistan. The 23-year-old singer Debbie is one to watch. Signed to the same record label as the rapper Stormzy, she features on his latest album This Is What I Mean. Debbie joins Hayley Hassall to discuss growing up with gospel music and how her pop career blossomed while studying finance at university. According to new research from the homeless charity Shelter 1 in every 100 children in England will wake up homeless this Christmas. CEO of Shelter Polly Neate joins Hayley Hassall to explain why and what she thinks needs to be done. Presenter: Hayley Hassall Producer: Emma Pearce

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Haley Hassel and welcome to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:04.6

Good morning and welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:06.9

On the programme today we will hear from a woman who has been diagnosed with ADHD.

0:11.6

That's attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder.

0:14.5

The reason for this?

0:15.5

Well, it's a mixture of education around the disorder, getting to know ourselves more

0:20.0

after two years of lockdowns.

0:22.0

But also the multitude of social media videos with the hashtag ADHD in women that are raising

0:28.0

awareness amongst women who may never have realised before that they too have the symptoms.

0:32.9

Well, I'll be joined by a clinical psychologist who can educate us all on ADHD specifically

0:38.7

in women.

0:39.7

And Josie Heath Smith, who discovered she had ADHD after watching videos online.

0:45.1

Plus, today the Taliban have banned women from universities in Afghanistan with immediate

0:51.0

effect.

0:52.0

Girls have already been excluded from secondary school since the Taliban returned last

0:55.8

year, but now this ban on higher education gets added to the list of barriers for women,

1:01.8

including going to parks and spars.

1:04.6

Many have said it's a threat to women and girls, and I'll be asking the journalist Katherine

1:09.4

Philp, who has been recently returned from the country about what she's experienced there.

1:15.2

And we've got a real treat for you this morning because the 24-year-old soul singer from

1:19.9

London who is one to watch after she has risen to fame supporting John Legend and collaborating

1:25.3

with Stormsy, Debbie will be in the studio to perform her latest single.

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