EP. 159: ADHD, Perimenopause and Menopause with Dr. Susan Varghese

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Tracy Otsuka

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I’m sure you’ve heard me say a million times that our best purposes give meaning to our past, we become incredible teachers when we’re driven by passion and personal connection. My guest this episode, Dr. Susan Varghese, knows firsthand just how important that personal connection is for living her purpose. Dr. Varghese is a General Practitioner and Family Physician who first discovered she has ADHD when perimenopause started to wreak havoc on her previously managable symptoms. As far as Susan could tell, no one in the medical community was talking about how much perimenopause and menopause can exacerbate the mental and physical symptoms of ADHD, so, being the leader she is, she decided to do it herself. Join me this episode for an insightful conversation with the incredible Dr. Susan Varghese, where she breaks down the role estrogen plays in our ADHD symptoms, the overlaps between ADHD and menopause (some of which even surprised me!), and so much more. Resources Instagram: @drsusanvarghese Website:

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0:00.0	I did this for me, you see, so that I could improve and then the byproduct of it being
0:06.0	offered as a service came secondary to that.
0:09.1	So it was not the primary goal of me learning, it was all for myself.
0:12.9	And I think that's the best teacher because when you have gone through it yourself, you
0:16.8	can relate to the person in front of you on the other side of the phone or the other side
0:22.4	of the consultation and you know what they're telling you.
0:26.8	You can understand, you can empathize with it and it's not like you're talking to a
0:32.0	brick wall.
0:33.0	There's empathy, there's confidence because you have lived through it and go through
0:38.2	to the other side and you're lived to tell stories, so to speak.
0:42.4	And it gives a lot of hope to other women is what I believe.
0:51.2	Thomas Edison, Richard Branson, John F. Kennedy, Mozart, Michael Jordan, Will Smith.
1:00.9	That sounds like a list of highly successful titans in a variety of locations.
1:06.7	Why is it that we rarely hear that they have or had ADHD?
1:12.9	And you know what we hear even less about?
1:18.6	Serena Williams, Emma Watson, Mel Robbins, Woopy Goldberg, Agatha Christie, Erin Brockovich,
1:27.4	Cher.
1:28.4	Yeah, the successful women navigating ADHD and that's exactly why I started this podcast,
1:36.0	ADHD for smart ass women.
1:38.6	I'm your host Tracey Otsuka, I'm a lawyer, not a doctor, a lifelong student, now a coach.
1:45.7	I'm also the creator of your ADHD brain is AOK, a system that helps people like you figure
1:53.2	out what they should do with their life.
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