Leading ADHD Clinician Reveals Scariest Side Of ADHD | Ms. Danielle Mulligan

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ms. Danielle Mulligan is a leading ADHD clinician and a UK-based Nurse Practitioner specialising in ADHD. Danielle oversees the clinical processes at Focused, a UK-based online clinic specialising in ADHD. Get a discount on your ADHD assessment at Focused -- use the code 'CHATTER' at checkout. Chapters: 00:25 Why ADHD adults feel unlovable 03:01 Danielle’s ADHD mission 06:14 Post diagnosis emotions 10:50 Does a diagnosis make you happy 12:25 What life events can trigger an ADHD assessment 14:13 Common ADHD criticisms 19:37 What RSD feels like 22:16 Tiimo advert 23:24 People pleasing 25:32 Is female ADHD harder than male ADHD 32:43 The importance of early diagnosis 37:28 Danielle’s ADHD item 40:36 Audience questions 46:55 A letter to my younger self Take the Focused survey = £100 prize draw 👉 https://uk.focused.clinic/adhd-relationships-survey/quiz Explore Focused 👉 https://uk.focused.clinic/ Focused on Tiktok 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@focusedclinic Focused on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/focused.clinic/ Focused on Youtube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@UK.Focused.Clinic Focused on X 👉 https://x.com/Focusedclinic Focused on Facebook 👉 https://www.facebook.com/focusedclinic Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/offers/adhdchatter Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817 Producer: Timon Woodward Recorded by: Hamlin Studios Trailer Editor: Ryan Faber DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Danielle, thank you so much for joining us.
0:02.0	Thank you for having me.
0:04.0	It's a huge privilege to have you here.
0:06.0	You've assessed thousands of people for ADHD.
0:09.0	So I'm sure you'll agree that some major pain points of ADHD are feeling lost,
0:16.0	isolated, misunderstood, useless, difficult, unloved, unlovable, all really sad terms. So a very important
0:24.2	question to start. Why do you think it's common for people with ADHD to feel these?
0:29.6	So I think it's common for them to feel it because a lot of the time they can mask a lot of
0:35.9	things. They can hide and think it's normal for them because it's all they've ever known.
0:41.3	So they can go through life sort of thinking, yeah, but I've never known any different.
0:47.0	So this is who I am and this is how it defines me until they sort of get a diagnosis of ADHD and understand more.
0:53.7	I think it can be such, it can be such a negative,
0:57.3	you find a lot of people with ADHD have such low self-confidence and self-esteem
1:01.3	because of all those things and because they just think that's the norm
1:05.6	and that's how they're going to crack on with things
1:07.8	and that they've just got to just move along
1:10.3	and they've just got to understand that the world's against them a lot of people feel, which is actually
1:15.8	super, super sad to think about because I think it's not a nice way to feel like that every single
1:20.8	day. And I think in terms of like why they feel like that, I think it's because, you know, they just program to go through
1:31.3	the day. They're programmed to understand that, you know, they can't do certain things, but they
1:36.3	don't know why they can't do certain things. And then if you go and you're paying for something
1:40.9	at the shop and you forgot your wallet, you just think you're stupid. And when you don't understand why you've done that, it's just such a negative experience
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