Sep 21, 2026 · 38 min · 17 segments
The frustration, guilt and anxiety that can come with ADHD also come with a physical toll. In this episode Sam and Katie describe how exhausting it is to have your body and brain running at a hundred…
Katie BreathwickHost
Sam PittisHost
Because all of the sort of symptoms and things about ADHD that we talk about, they actually take a physical toll on us as well.
And it comes out in all sorts of different ways, emotionally and physically, verbally, all these different things.
And that can be as simple as if I'm doing something, it goes at 100 miles an hour and I want to get it done in three minutes rather than 30.
But it also is about that feeling of a thought or a regret, something you said or did 25 years ago that you still remember, that sudden media at your wake at half past two in the morning, and it's as if it happened yesterday, and it feels just as real.
And, you know, some of these things are to do with people I let down many, many, many years ago, but I still feel the emotion of it and it can still wake me up at night.
I totally think about people I met at school and some of the things I said to them in anger or frustration and, you know, hoping they don't remember them in the way that I remember them.
And I think that's one of the things that people... misunderstand about ADHD when we talk about it and you see it represented as, you know, different traits that we've talked about.
The physical toll that has on me, you know, we talked this series already about being hyper.
Because all of the sort of symptoms and things about ADHD that we talk about, they actually take a physical toll on us as well.
And it comes out in all sorts of different ways, emotionally and physically, verbally, all these different things.
And that can be as simple as if I'm doing something, it goes at 100 miles an hour and I want to get it done in three minutes rather than 30.
But it also is about that feeling of a thought or a regret, something you said or did 25 years ago that you still remember, that sudden media at your wake at half past two in the morning, and it's as if it happened yesterday, and it feels just as real.
And, you know, some of these things are to do with people I let down many, many, many years ago, but I still feel the emotion of it and it can still wake me up at night.
I totally think about people I met at school and some of the things I said to them in anger or frustration and, you know, hoping they don't remember them in the way that I remember them.
And I think that's one of the things that people... misunderstand about ADHD when we talk about it and you see it represented as, you know, different traits that we've talked about.
The physical toll that has on me, you know, we talked this series already about being hyper.
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