This is a Headgun Podcast.

Hello everyone, welcome to Factually, I'm a

Madame Conover. Thank you so much for joining me once again as I talk to an

incredible expert about all the things that they know that you don't know. I

almost definitely don't know. My mind is going to be blown. Your mind is going to

be blown. We're going to have a great time together. Can't wait to get to this

interview. But before we do, I have a little bit of housekeeping I want to do. A

couple weeks back, I didn't episode on ADHD where I spoke with Dr. Steven Hinshaw.

We talked about the history of the diagnosis and most importantly, we talked

about my own personal history with ADHD. I was diagnosed at a very young age

and I struggled for many years with whether medication was helping me or

hurting me. Whether I felt the diagnosis even applied to me, I have very

complex feelings about the pharmaceutical industries influenced over the

diagnosis and the explosion of it that we saw in the 90s. And I had a lot of

questions for Dr. Steven Hinshaw about it as a result. And he answered a good

deal of them. And I thought we had a really interesting conversation. And I'm

very happy that we did the episode. And I heard from a lot of folks afterwards

who were appreciative that we did it related to my experience and that it helped

them think through their own issues with the diagnosis as well. But I also heard

from some folks who felt that the episode did not reflect their

experience. Some folks wrote in who said, for instance, that they went

undiagnosed as children and didn't realize until they were adults that they

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