Kerry Mead: It wasn’t depression, it was ADHD
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 21 with Kerry Mead.
"It's almost like you attract other neurodiverse people to you when you are neurodiverse."
Kerry is a music obsessive, book obsessive social butterfly and escaper of responsibilities. Kerry is a full-time single parent and registered carer to her oldest child who is autistic. When she isn’t busy with all of that Kerry is a writer and music editor. She writes about parenting and neurodiversity, politics, relationships, and all the other stuff too.
I reached out to Kerry after stumbling upon a really powerful essay she wrote for The Everyday magazine in the UK. The article was entitled “I Don’t Have Depression, I Have Attention Deficit Disorder: The Frequent Misdiagnosis of Womxn”
I was really struck by the piece, I so related to her experience, especially as a woman who was misdiagnosed with chronic depression and anxiety for more than 20 years prior to my own ADHD diagnosis.
We talk about being mothers and the struggles we’ve faced with domestic duties and guilt and feelings of being a failure. Kerry has a son with autism and a daughter with ADHD, and we talk about how easy it is for mothers to put the work in when it comes to our kids, but not necessarily for ourselves.
Kerry is also from the UK and we talk a bit about the National Health Service (NHS) and some of the current hurdles to getting a diagnosis right now, the wait list can be years for some people.
Website: Kerrymead.net
Twitter: @Kerry_689
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| 1:02.5 | Everybody else is saying about all the DIY projects they're getting on with and are they're going to |
| 1:06.6 | take the time to decorate the living room or paint the garden fences and I'm just there literally |
| 1:12.9 | with like feeling like I come holding up a house of cards that's just about to collapse the house |
| 1:17.7 | immediately got more disgusting more disorganised because the children were home all the time |
| 1:23.2 | and I also had to become a teacher which really really, really is not my career of choice. |
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