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We don't know yet, but hopefully one day we will.

But I was really interested in your research and understanding a bit more about ADHD and perimenopause and just hormones in general because I've done a little bit of research study around it through the Australian Psychology Society.

And so I was really thrilled to have you on to talk a bit more about your work.

So I'll stop rambling and would you like to introduce yourself?

Bianca Comfort is a clinical psychologist who runs a telehealth clinic dedicated to chronic illness and neurodivergence.

She is the former vice president of the Australian Psychological Society.

She also happens to be autistic and ADHD herself with EDS, POTS, MCAS, and what used to be called chronic fatigue syndrome, but that's changed its name, hasn't it, Bianca?

Yeah, so we call that myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, but you might see acronym as ME slash CFS because we're transitioning people not quite familiar with the chronic fatigue syndrome change to ME.

We've developed this education course.

It sits on the Australian Psychological Society website, but any clinician in the country can access it.

It's a six-hour education course that provides Australian upper register clinicians with all of the tools and resources to start delivering the CBT-IM practice, including a downloadable and manualized CBT-IM intervention that can be delivered over a number of weekly or fortnightly sessions.

About two years ago, I also led development of this online CBTI provider registry.

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