S2.Ep10: The ADHD AF Community speaks & Dawn Says Goodbye

If you've just found us, this isn't the usual episode length or format,this is an EXTRA SPECIAL EPISODE!We close ADHD Awareness Month with our last Podcast recording as a Duo!Dawn's stepping down-but will remain an active member of our Online Peer Support Community. Find out why HERE MASSIVE TRIGGER WARNING: Contains alcohol consumption, gallows humour & swearing. We tackle some very triggering topics!Including: suicide, suicidal ideation, self harm, depression, anxiety, emotional dysregulation,abusive relationships, breakups, divorce, childhood bullying, financial/family/parental/pregnancy/conception & work struggles, self medicating, medical negligence, misdiagnosis,religious & eduction trauma, teenage pregnancy, miscarriage, loneliness,isolation, disordered eating, and the ADHD medication shortage. If you are struggling there is help out there, so please reach out for support HERECelebrating new beginnings with a beast of a Blether with 30 ADHDAF Global Community Members in 3 Continents! Each month, us & our Gold Patrons meet on Zoom. Peer Support is invaluable; as the only people who know what it's like aboard the late ADHD Diagnosis Roller Coaster are the other passengers! These blethers are always so amazing. We tackle difficult topics and have some fun too... there's always tears, both sad and happy.So strap yourselves in and hold on tight; our Dawny's going out with a bang! MUCH LOVE & GRATITUDE to Speakers: Birthday girl Sara in Hamburg, Louise in Inverness, Sarah S, Donna in Cambridge, Kerry & Gemma in Surrey,Leanne in Newcastle, Miranda in Salford, Jaimie in Tennessee, Lizzee in Birmingham,Tracy in Watford, Kim in Wiltshire, Ally in Stirling, Nikkie in Plymouth, Mary in Lytham St Annes, Indi in Melbourne, Siobhan & Jill in Glasgow, Carolina in Manchester, Claire & Kirsty in Oxfordhsire, Claire in Liverpool & Claire in Space!(or Liverpool) For Laura & the ADHDAF Community, the safari continues... more ADHDAF Podcasts & Live Events coming right up! Get tickets to come together & unmask with the community IRL at the ADHDAF Live UK Christmas shows HEREWe SERIOUSLY can't say thank you enough to all of our Community members, whose support enables the creation of ADHDAF. To the Leopard Print Army for your support in the launch of our Make it Count Campaign on  ADHDAF Day. Thank you to all of you for listening to us throughout this monumental chapter as a duo, for the much appreciated Donations, for the outpouring of kind messages we've both received since announcing Dawn's departure & for your continued support.The biggest thank you of all is to our dearest Dawn-Marie. Our whirlwind time as a duo has included 76 podcast episodes, 20 Live Shows, just shy of 1 million podcast downloads in 194 countries, and the creation of this INCREDIBLE Peer Support Community in just 17 months! *standing ovation* THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. 'Keep smashing things!' :') We can't wait to see you throw your leopard print mortar board in the air! XXXAWESOME SOCKS FOREVER! Photo taken in Fittie by Sam Brill Photography Support the show