We spoke briefly and you mentioned overcompensating a lot and how people with ADHD, if they

don't understand their own patterns, can overcompensate their energy levels. Can you give

an example of this and how it might be harmful if left untreated? Well, I think, I mean,

for me, overcompensation can have various manifestations and I think that a lot of it will go again

giving you some examples of stuff that I would typically see in practice but if you for me it comes

back to always when we're younger so someone with ADHD typically even no matter how together

they may appear senior professional, professional, successful, slick, well, undoubtedly have struggled

in their earlier life to get by, to fit in, to kind of match their potential.

You know, they'll have been, they'd have heard messages and I've not worked with anyone

to date that hasn't had an experience

around this where there may be that mismatch. If only you tried harder, you've got great

potential but just try harder. You know, you hear lazy, not trying hard enough. You go through

this process of being delivered negative labels, maybe well-intentioned ones,

maybe ones that to someone neurotypical wouldn't have such a profound effect.

But if you're getting them in multiple scenarios and you're being told by people you're too much,

not enough, A, it's really confusing as an identity piece, but you internalise that.

How can that not affect your self-esteem, how you feel and know you are perceived in the

world?

So that comes down to self-worth, self-esteem.

So you carry that through life, and you feel, again, clients clients I work with often talk about how they experience

whether you call it imposter syndrome or not being good enough. So there's always a sense of trying

to prove yourself. There's often, as well, clients that I will talk to will often reveal that

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