The ADHD self-diagnosis ‘industry’ offering a quick fix that doesn’t exist
When Kim Raine received her diagnosis of ADHD in 2021, she was flooded with a mix of emotions. Grief, for the years she’d spent unable to pinpoint exactly why she felt different from others; all the times she’d lain awake at night with racing thoughts, suffered mood swings or worked all day and seemed to achieve nothing. But there was also, she says, “a lightbulb moment – a sense that, at nearly 50, I finally understood myself”.
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