A life-changing diagnosis

IT seems that everyone is talking about ADHD celebrities from Rob Beckett to Johnny Vegas are opening up about having it and more than 200,000 Brits are on a waiting list for a diagnosis.

- BY SARA WALLIS

An estimated 2.6 million people in the UK have it, and no doubt many more just haven't been diagnosed.

But what does it feel like to have ADHD? Alex, who features here, says: “It is like having a Ferrari engine but with bicycle brakes.”

For Milly: “It feels like there’s always a swarm of bees in my brain that are always fighting each other for my attention.”