Gemma Styles: ADHD, rejection, and radical honesty
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Your brain isn’t broken; this is the reassurance influencer Gemma Styles wants you to have. Your brain is doing its best to cope with modern society – we need to be fixing our systems not blaming our brains for poor mental health.
In this chat with Fearne, Gemma – who’s an ambassador for MQ Mental Health Research – explains why understanding the science behind how her ADHD brain works helps her be kinder to herself.
Do you compare and despair whenever you scroll through social media? Gemma has over 10 million followers on Instagram and offers advice for checking in with yourself on how being online is really making you feel.
Plus, are you the type of person who leaves every social interaction convinced you’ve pissed someone off? Fearne and Gemma have some useful thoughts to make you feel less alone on that one...
Gemma’s book, Why Am I Like This, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. This is the show that helps us |
| 0:06.1 | understand ourselves better so we can cut ourselves a bit of slack. Today I'm |
| 0:11.6 | chatting to Gemma Styles. |
| 0:13.8 | When things started to get quite a lot worse for me or when I found things really difficult |
| 0:18.2 | and it really badly started affecting my mental health was when I left home and went to |
| 0:22.3 | uni. There's lots of parts of your life |
| 0:24.8 | that you're managing yourself that you weren't before. My wheels kind of fell off, to be honest. |
| 0:29.5 | And so many people and so many women especially haven't been diagnosed until it's kind of not too late but too late and the kind of mental health impacts have already happened and that's that's what the really the terrible bit is. |
| 0:42.8 | Gemma has over 10 million followers on Instagram. |
| 0:46.6 | That is mad. |
| 0:47.8 | She has impossibly huge influence and I love that she uses her platform |
| 0:52.4 | in the most compassionate, reassuring way to raise awareness about everything from feminism to sustainability to mental health. |
| 1:00.0 | Why am I like this is the name of the book she's written as a sort of roadmap to help us |
| 1:05.8 | navigate the very unique pressures and anxiety so many of us come up against in life today. |
| 1:12.4 | Uncertain futures, reliance on tech, increasing |
| 1:15.9 | social disconnection, burnout, the list goes on. She's also really open about what she's learned |
| 1:21.3 | from being diagnosed with ADHD, one of those things being that she's able to be a bit kinder to herself. |
| 1:28.0 | That's something most of us constantly need to work out, blimmin heck I do. I can be a right old cow to myself. It's what it's just I am my worst enemy like many of you out there. I'm sure that resonates. I can pick on myself say nasty things about myself and I mean I talk about this stuff every |
| 1:46.1 | blimmin day so this episode in particular was a really good reminder to just be like stop being a dick to myself come on fern you know how it works |
| 1:57.2 | we chatted about feeling particularly sensitive to rejection what it's like being an introvert, growing up with an extroverted sibling |
| 2:05.5 | that as you well know is Harry Styles obviously and worrying you've really pissed someone off |
| 2:11.9 | with something that you said oh that |
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