remember

below what and she told me that on the call and I later went to get a diagnosis and obviously learned that that was the case and it wasn't a relationship coach that I needed it was an ADHD coach I needed to understand well a lot of this is your ADHD showing up and you need to understand that if you want it to stop we can't just carry on like this and and yeah i went into therapy i stopped cocaine i used that ability to hyper fixate and i just went i'm not doing this no more and i got rid of it and i've never looked back since with the cocaine um i kept and i say that without i didn't have to do any lighting go to cocaine anonymous meetings and that's an interesting one for adhd because i get a lot of people that come to me now because they're relating to the story and they'll say been to meetings i've been in rehab and it's not worked you don't relate to anybody in their meetings that's the problem what we've got here there's no relatability cocaine anonymous and rehabilitation are for cocaine addicts not necessarily people that are self-medicating cocaine that's what i've self-medicating adhd and that's what i've learned on my journey making that turn is that It's the underlying root rather than the symptom, isn't it? I'm not addicted to the substance.

I'm addicted to what it gives me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, I made that transition.

A, the positive side of ADHD is that we can flip a switch and go, no, no more.

And I was like, that's it.

before,

And some people are and some people aren't, and I guess it depends on your situation, doesn't it?

That's interesting because it does depend on your situation.

It depends on how it's affecting your life.

For me, it was just...

It was affecting every aspect.

The way I was coping with it, with the drugs, the alcohol, the way it showed up in my relationships.

Obviously, from a young age at school...

Is that right about that? And that's

And yeah, you stood out for me for sure because of where you are now, but also how much you're helping people, especially with A- ADHD.

Yeah, it's been a bumpy road.

I was late diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 28, and that kind of answered a lot of questions for me.

Um, I struggled with drug addiction, alcohol, relationships, and yeah, I always knew right from the age, well, of being at school that the, something wasn't quite right.

Whether that being myself or from what I, I got from people around me.

Yeah, came out of school, and it led to certain things and led me down certain roads that put me in situations that I wasn't proud of, and I didn't paint myself in a good light.

But I think getting, getting to the age of 28 and having that diagnosis gave me, it gave me a lot of answers as to why.

... do I wanna laugh when I shouldn't be laughing? It's bizarre.

But how did that make you feel when you're at school and you're getting these labels or you're getting this judgment, which now looking back, it just wasn't...

I'll give you an example of what...

I was speaking to my old man about this only a couple of days ago.

And I speak about these things all the time.

And I had a parent reach out to me of...

An 18 year old lad who was struggling.

I see, see so much of him in your story.

You want a fair