Rayhana Erasmus

By Dr. Kirsten Whitlock, MBChB GP with Special Interest in Mental Health & Neurodiversity When you picture ADHD, what comes to mind? If you're like most people, you probably see a hyperactive boy, climbing on desks, running around at break, unable to sit still. That boy on Ritalin that everyone knew at school. Now let me introduce you to someone else. She's highly empathetic, deeply affected by others' pain and world events. She's socially adept on the surface, but every interaction leaves...

By Dr Angelique Oliveira - Functional Medicine GP Not so long ago, women were institutionalised for what we now understand to be perimenopause and menopause. Let that land for a moment. The rage. The insomnia. The palpitations. The brain fog. The feeling of completely losing yourself, all of it, was pathologised as madness. Women were committed to asylums, medicated into submission, or told they were hysterical. It's a stain on our medical history. And while we've come a long way, the truth...