Anna Lopez: Do we need a medical diagnosis? [Top 10 Replay with Bonus Update]

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Episode 154 with Anna Lopez. [Replay].

Welcome back to my special Top 10 Replay series, where I’m re-releasing 10 interviews that really stood out to me and have stayed with me in some particular way — either because of the topic, the conversation, or the feedback I received from listeners. I’ve chosen 10 episodes that I feel deserve a replay — so hopefully if you missed this one the first time around you’ll get a chance to hear it, or if you listened to it when it originally aired, I hope you’ll enjoy listening to it again.

This week I’m re-releasing my interview with Anna Lopez, which originally aired as Episode 29 in April of 2021. This episode was transformative for me in many ways — Anna was the first psychotherapist I interviewed for the podcast, and I had so many questions and she was game for all of them. I was particularly interested in her perspective on diagnosis and her thoughts on the recent uptick in diagnoses in adult women. Anna is so interesting and brilliant and she has so much curiosity and thoughtfulness

Bonus Update:

Make sure to stick around because, at the end of the episode, I check back in with Anna to talk about the work she’s doing now, especially her somatic therapy work. We also discuss the fact that we’ve both self-identified as autistic since our initial interview and the parallels in terms of self-diagnosis vs. formal diagnosis.

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1:06.9	you know, they don't want to pay attention. And that's not the truth.
1:11.2	And so I think that sometimes I feel like we could just throw the word behavior out and stop, like, talking about behavior by itself without recognizing, like, what's happening.
1:20.5	And behavior is a signal of something deeper, you know, so it's kind of annoying.
1:25.9	Sometimes when ADHD is, like, called it, like, behavioral, neural behavioral thing. It's like, it's kind of annoying. Sometimes when ADHD is called it like behavioral, neural, behavioral thing.
1:30.3	It's like it's not behavior.
1:31.9	It's what's happening in our brain that makes it look like behavior.
1:40.1	Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast.
1:46.8	I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45 and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so
1:53.5	much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens and it has been
2:00.6	nothing short of overwhelming.
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