Sasha Hamdani (on ADHD)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Comedy, Music, Tv & Film

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Sasha Hamdani (Too Sensitive: Rejection, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply) is a board-certified psychiatrist and ADHD clinical specialist. Sasha joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the classroom insurrection she started which led to her ADHD diagnosis, how her residency rebuilt the confidence that medical school degraded, and that symptoms known today as ADHD first showed up in the 1700s. Sasha and Dax talk about her beef with diagnostic labels and how often trauma is misdiagnosed as ADHD, how liberating it was to understand the way her brain functions, and neurological reasons why grief is so destabilizing for someone with ADHD. Sasha explains the importance of being able to emotionally regulate before conflict, her hot take on self-diagnosis, and non-stimulant, skills-based approaches that work well to treat ADHD.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert.
0:03.2	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:05.7	Hi.
0:06.6	Today we have Sasha Hamdani on a long time coming.
0:12.4	We've been talking about ADHD ad nauseum.
0:15.0	I think we've even maybe lost listeners over it.
0:17.2	But we finally have brought in an expert to either correct, confirm, who knows.
0:23.0	Just explore this topic that we are obsessed with.
0:26.2	That's the fun thing about this show. We get to talk about something that we know very little
0:31.2	about and then get real answers. It is awesome.
0:35.5	Sasha is an MD. She's a board certified psychiatrist, specializing in ADHD, RSD, and emotional regulation.
0:43.7	Her books include self-care for people with ADHD.
0:47.6	And an upcoming book that comes out in October.
0:50.8	Look forward to when people start serving pumpkin spice lattes and dressing in Halloween costumes.
0:55.7	PSL.
0:56.5	Too sensitive, rejection, resilience, and the science of feeling deeply.
1:01.7	Boy, I love this.
1:03.1	This is a great episode.
1:04.4	Yeah.
1:04.8	Please enjoy Sasha Hamdani.
1:07.9	This episode of Armchair Expert is presented by Apple TV, the new U.S. home of Formula One.
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