E122 - Why is an ADHD diagnosis helpful? (w/ Robin Ince)

05/01/25 • 73 min

The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

Robin Ince is a comedian, author, broadcaster and a populariser of scientific ideas. He is best known as the co-host of the BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox. His new book Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My adventures in neurodiversity is out now.

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The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy - E122 - Why is an ADHD diagnosis helpful? (w/ Robin Ince)

Transcript

Welcome back. Today, Anya and I are very excited to welcome back, author, comedian, and broadcaster Robin ins to the podcast when we first had him on. Robin was in the middle of writing his book, which has now been released, and that is normally weird and weirdly normal. My Adventures in Neurodiversity, and this is a book Robin wrote about his experiences getting a diagnosis of A DHD, what that means for him, how it was helpful.

So today we have a conversation all about A DHD. Robin tell