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Jul 2024
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"I FINALLY understand why my relationshi...

Alex Partridge
About this episode

Kate Spicer dissects her late ADHD diagnosis (only 2 months ago) and shares many lessons she's learnt. This episode is painfully relatable but also full of hope, humour and insights.


Kate is a lifestyle journalist who has written for Vogue, the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.


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00:00 Trailer

01:21 You have a very amusing nickname for your Brain. What is it? And why do you call it that?

05:14 Have your family accepted your diagnosis?

14:10 Internal narratives leading to dark places

20:49 Relationships

24:59 What’s been your biggest realisation since your diagnosis

28:35 Were you worried ADHD medication would numb your creative mind?

30:14 Kate’s experience with hallucinagentics

37:07 Are you sensitive to criticism?

47:13 Your ADHD item

51:06 Do you think there’s a link between ADHD, RSD and the pursuit to be beautiful

52:55 Can you - for the benefit of our male listeners - just briefly describe what being undiagnosed ADHD is like at school from your perspective as an adolescent female trying to find her way?

56:45 What do you think are the 3 most confusing attributes about yourself that someone who doesn't understand ADHD would have trouble understanding about you?

01:01:35 Your most impulsive thing


Read Kate's substack 👉 https://katespicer.substack.com/archive


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