{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/660030ee8d6ad80016ba0381/6a3027c2252d86e8465e62ce?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"ADHD & Gender Bias in Healthcare with Sarah West","description":"<p><strong>Link to Pre Order: Tackling Gender Bias in The Healthcare System. What Patient stories Teach Us About Implementing Systemic Change:&nbsp;</strong><a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https://www.waterstones.com/book/tackling-gender-bias-in-the-healthcare-system/louise-hockings-thompson/jinty-sheerin/9781805018810</strong></a></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><ul><li>Together we explore how ADHD research was almost entirely built around hyperactive boys and </li><li>the lasting legacy for generations of women and girls who simply didn't fit that picture. </li><li>We discuss why girls tend to internalise where boys externalise, and whether that's still playing out in referral pathways today. </li><li>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.</li><li>Sarah also tackles the topic of perimenopause and how it can dramatically unmask ADHD symptoms, </li><li>the emerging research linking ADHD and autism with hypermobility, </li><li>the \"over-diagnosis\" backlash and whether that criticism is actually a gender bias story in disguise, </li><li>plus what still needs to change, and what good post-diagnosis support should look like.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We also share what we’ve been up to this week, and stick around for some beautiful inspiration to carry you through the week.</p><p>☕ Subscribe for honest chats on women's health, feminist issues, sisterhood &amp; smashing the patriarchy one cuppa at a time.</p><p>💛 Enjoying the podcast? Please share, leave us a review or comment! 🙏 Scroll down  ⬇️</p><p>☕ Buy us a coffee at Ko-Fi: <a href=\"https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://ko-fi.com/womenkindcollectivepodcast</a></p><p>💬 Email Jinty &amp; Lou: <a href=\"mailto:womenkindcollective@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">womenkindcollective@gmail.com</a></p><p>👀 Join us on Instagram: <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/womenkindcollective?igsh=ZmxmbGs2d3BjcXA1&amp;utm_source=qr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.instagram.com/womenkindcollective?igsh=ZmxmbGs2d3BjcXA1&amp;utm_source=qr</a></p><p>🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: <a href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/womenkind-collective/id1557937820\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/womenkind-collective/id1557937820</a></p><p>🎧 Listen on Spotify: <a href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/42KniEtc5WGQhNvREsN1WP?si=e14a83c93a304bb3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://open.spotify.com/show/42KniEtc5WGQhNvREsN1WP?si=e14a83c93a304bb3</a></p><p>🎧 And all your favourite podcast platforms</p><p>Thank you for listening 💛</p><p>Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Sarah West:</strong></p><p><strong>Web: </strong><a href=\"https://www.sarahwest-adhd.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https://www.sarahwest-adhd.com/</strong></a></p><p><strong>LinkedIn: Sarah West</strong></p><p><strong>Insta: @sarahwest_adhd</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;ADHD &amp; Menopause Book by Dr Helen Wall - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Menopause-ADHD-neurodivergence-Vermilion-Empowered/dp/178504642X</p><p>Sarah West ADHD &amp; Menopause, previous episode here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adhd-late-diagnosis-with-adhd-coach-sarah-west/id1557937820?i=1000687993934</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Further Information: &amp; Support</strong></p><p><strong>Web: </strong><a href=\"https://adhduk.co.uk/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https://adhduk.co.uk</strong></a></p><p><strong>Books: Menopause and ADHD: How to Navigate Hormone Flux and Neurodivergence. Dr Helen Wall. Vermillion. 2026</strong></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Jinty Sheerin and Lou Hockings-Thompson"}