“Thank you KC for the wonderful gentleness and vulnerability you model here. I was moved to tears listening to your first podcast - you are so precisely describing my life and you are NOT handing me a to-do list and rebuking my failures. I feel like I’ve taken my first deep breath in several years.
I’m a 71 year old retired physician who finally recognized my own ADD a year and a half ago. I knew I couldn’t possibly have ADD because I got through medical school and practiced medicine. The burnout episodes were because I was a female physician in a male system. Or because I wanted to focus on compassion not on throughput. But I do remember sitting staring at a chart for half an hour , utterly unable to do anything with it. Looking back, I welcomed crises because then everybody was in the same state I always endured - and I was the one who was used to it.
The first day I took Ritalin, I cleaned out a cupboard. We’d owned the house for 25 years, and I’d never been able to do that.
Retirement is hard because now I have to provide my own structure.
I just want to say, for any doubters out there, that everything I heard today is in line with the science and medicine I know. And it is chock full of common sense and practical wisdom, which is not always available through science and medicine.
KC, you are a wonderful wonderful resource. Thank you for”
Serenitykickass via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
11/19/22