Description
For decades, Christi Lukasiak was handed diagnoses that didn’t fit: Depression. Anxiety. Borderline personality. Bipolar. She was navigating with the wrong map. Then a new therapist asked one question, and everything clicked. It was ADHD.
Christi is a TV personality, creator, and host of Back to the Barre with Christi and Kelly. Christi talks about the grief of a late ADHD diagnosis, coping with misdiagnosis, and what it means to finally give yourself grace. We also go somewhere no guest has gone on this show: reality TV. What does it look like to have undiagnosed ADHD on a reality TV show — and would she have even been cast if she’d known?
For more on this topic
Listen: How social media changed ADHD forever https://www.understood.org/en/podcasts/climbing-the-walls/how-social-media-changed-adhd-forever
Read: How to handle ADHD misdiagnosis https://www.understood.org/en/articles/adhd-misdiagnosis
Watch: ADHD and rejection sensitivity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40a3CxDReQ
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