BBC OS Conversations: Living with ADHD

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The exact cause is unknown, but the mental health condition ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) affects millions of lives around the world. Symptoms include hyperactive behaviour and maintaining concentration. To understand its effect a little more, we brought people together who are living with it. Two mothers in Kenya and the UK share their experiences of bringing up children with the condition. Host James Reynolds also hears from two couples living with ADHD in Nigeria and the United States, and rapper Jude MI Abaga.

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0:00.0	Fukushima, an original audio drama series from the BBC World Service.
0:07.2	Telling the story of the 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.
0:12.5	There is no greater threat we face at this time than the one unfolding in Fukushima Daiichi.
0:18.9	Search for Fukushima wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:22.4	Hello, I'm James Reynolds.
0:23.6	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:27.3	We bring together people from around the world to discuss how significant events affect their lives.
0:33.3	This time, it's conversations with people who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
0:40.9	We bring together parents and couples who discuss what it's like either to have the condition
0:45.5	or to live with people who experience the symptoms of hyperactivity and an inability to focus.
0:51.8	They can be positives as well.
0:54.0	One of our guests is the Nigerian rapper, Jude Mi Agaba.
0:58.2	It really affected me and my time in college in the States.
1:03.1	But it helped me when I moved back to Nigeria.
1:05.0	I ended up having a really successful music career.
1:07.8	I've always been very creative.
1:09.1	And in that way, it's sort of like a gift and a curse.
1:13.4	Reports suggest that about 2% of adults around the world have the mental health condition,
1:19.5	ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
1:23.5	Now 2% doesn't sound that much, does it?
1:26.0	But add it all up and it comes to around 160 million people.
1:31.9	And the number of children with ADHD is more than twice that.
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