Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change: https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810
This week on Spill The Tea, Lou and Jinty are joined by Sarah West, a nurse, ADHD coach, and passionate advocate for women who've spent years being everything except correctly diagnosed.
Sarah first joined us in Series 12, Episode 3 to share her own story. Now she's back as part of our Gender Bias in Healthcare series, and this conversation goes deeper.
- Together we explore how ADHD research was almost entirely built around hyperactive boys and
- the lasting legacy for generations of women and girls who simply didn't fit that picture.
- We discuss why girls tend to internalise where boys externalise, and whether that's still playing out in referral pathways today.
- We examine why so many women receive anxiety, depression, or even bipolar diagnoses before anyone considers ADHD and what it does to a woman to have her neurology repeatedly mistaken for a mood disorder.
- Sarah also tackles the topic of perimenopause and how it can dramatically unmask ADHD symptoms,
- the emerging research linking ADHD and autism with hypermobility,
- the "over-diagnosis" backlash and whether that criticism is actually a gender bias story in disguise,
- plus what still needs to change, and what good post-diagnosis support should look like.
We also share what we’ve been up to this week, and stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.
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Sarah West:
Web: https://www.sarahwest-adhd.com/
LinkedIn: Sarah West
Insta: @sarahwest_adhd
ADHD & Menopause Book by Dr Helen Wall - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Menopause-ADHD-neurodivergence-Vermilion-Empowered/dp/178504642X
Sarah West ADHD & Menopause, previous episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adhd-late-diagnosis-with-adhd-coach-sarah-west/id1557937820?i=1000687993934
Further Information: & Support
Web: https://adhduk.co.uk
Books: Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence. Dr Helen Wall. Vermillion. 2026
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