Denise Welch diagnosed with ADHD after colleague's suspicion; links condition to recent breakdown

Welch experienced a clinical depression breakdown in the past year, her first in five years, which she now attributes partly to undiagnosed ADHD.

At 67, actress and television personality Denise Welch received an ADHD diagnosis that arrived not through a clinic but through a casual conversation among colleagues — a quiet reminder that self-knowledge often depends on who is sitting beside us. Her story, unfolding across decades of public candour about depression and addiction, now gains a new layer of meaning: the possibility that a single unidentified neurological condition shaped much of what she endured. Her case joins a growing body of evidence suggesting that women have long been diagnosed too late, too little, and with too little u

Denise Welch diagnosed with ADHD after colleague's suspicion; links condition to recent breakdown

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