Hey guys, welcome back to Pretty Lions podcast.

This is Sarah and I'm with our favorite maternal mental health therapist Whitney.

Whitney, welcome.

Hey, friends.

So Whitney, this conversation that we're going to have today is, I think, you know,

maybe I've been Instagram influenced, added, but like, you know, the topics of does motherhood cause ADHD,

anxiety, depression.

Is it the cause or is the flashlight that's shining upon underlining issues that may have been in place that we've not talked about?

Because I've seen tons of it.

Maybe you have on just kind of social media of, you know, is it anxiety?

Is it ADHD? You know, what is this whole topic and what have you seen in clients and help us just dig deep of like, is motherhood

causing it? Or have we never just maybe named entertainment? So it can be a little bit of both

depending on what diagnosis we're looking at. So ADHD is

something that we are born with. And there is a pediatrician that I'll follow on Instagram and I really

appreciated the way that he broke this down. He said, you know, you have some people that use windows

as their operating system. Some people use Apple. They're both

operating systems. We can both get things done, but they are very different in how they operate.

That is the same thing when we look at someone who is what they call neurotypical. So that would not be an ADHD

ADHD versus neurodivergent, which is ADHD.

So when we look at ADHD, it is something that you are born with.

It is very genetic.

There is so much data to back up that ADHD is genetic.

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