Ep 6: What’s It Like Working with ADHD and Binge Eating Disorder Before and After Diagnosis?

This week, Snap Out of It! The Mental Illness in the Workplace Podcast with Natasha Tracy is talking about attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and binge eating disorder (BED) at work with Jason Hamburg. Jason is the Vice President of Neuroscience at Takeda Canada Inc. Jason wasn’t diagnosed with a mental illness until he was 44 years old, and he can attest to the fact that while he dealt with his mental illnesses in his own ways, those illnesses definitely held him back. Jason calls these illnesses impulsivity and compulsivity, and the difference in experience before and after treatment was striking.

ADHD and Binge Eating in the Workplace

Jason is going to be talking to us about what happens to people with ADHD or binge eating in the workplace, the illnesses’ effects on a lifestyle overall, and his own experiences with binge eating and ADHD. This is a conversation chock full of expert knowledge and patient experience. You don’t want to miss it.

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