Tag: Middleaged

Apps and social media influencers are wrongly making middle-aged women think they have ADHD, experts warn… so are YOUR symptoms a sign of the disorder or totally normal?

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Trendy apps, social media influencers and private clinics are contributing to a huge surge of ADHD in middle-aged women, an expert fears. 

World-renowned University College London psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff fears the mental disorder is being over diagnosed. 

As a result, thousands are needlessly getting powerful drugs designed to calm them down, she said.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition which affects people’s behaviour. It usually makes patients restless and causes them trouble concentrating and act on impulse.

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‘Every middle-aged woman in the country was astonished’: Journalists criticise Lancashire police for revealing Nicola Bulley’s menopause and alcohol struggles as documentary marks one year since tragedy

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Detectives and journalists slammed Lancashire Police for its controversial statement revealing that Nicola Bulley had ‘suffered with some significant issues with alcohol which were brought on by her ongoing struggles with the menopause’ in a new documentary about the tragic case, one year after she initially disappeared.

Nicola Bulley: The Disappearance That Gripped Britain – which is airing on Channel 5 on February 2, at 9pm – spoke to crime experts who admitted they were baffled by the move. 

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Are middle-aged celebs giving false hope to women about becoming a mother in their 50s? As Victoria Coren Mitchell welcomes second child at age 51, why fertility experts are concerned over exploding trend…

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Celebrities welcoming babies in their 50s are giving women false hope over their own chances of conceiving later in life, experts warned today. 

TV host Victoria Coren Mitchell this week revealed she had given birth to daughter June Violet at the age of 51 after keeping her pregnancy a secret.  

Her delivery followed that of supermodel Naomi Campbell, 53, who welcomed her second child in June and told fans ‘it’s never too late’ to become a mother.

But fertility specialists

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Why we put our mums on Middle-Aged Love Island! Meet the breakout stars of My Mum, Your Dad – set to be TV’s dating show of the year with contestants in their 40s and 50s and their matchmaker children watching on relieved there’s NO cameras in the bedrooms

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Tuning in to watch twentysomethings in the early stages of orchestrated romantic relationships has become something of a national sport, thanks to the runaway success of ITV’s Love Island.

On to a winning formula, the channel is now bringing us a new dating series My Mum, Your Dad — the first episode of which airs tonight. 

And this time the cameras are turning on single parents in their 40s and 50s who, while not quite as gym-honed and orange-hued as

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Documentary Under Cover reveals the shocking rise in homeless middle-aged Australian women

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Australian women in their 50s are becoming the nation’s ‘hidden homeless’, a shocking new documentary has revealed. 

Narrated by Margot Robbie, documentary Under Cover charts the heartbreaking stories of 10 women who were suddenly left without a home. 

The women live in their cars, stay on a friend’s couch and are forced to frequently move from temporary accommodation.  

Producer Adam Farrington-Williams told Daily Mail Australia that the film explores how women over 50 are the fastest growing demographic of homeless

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Some middle-aged women are waiting a year for coils to be fitted

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Diane French-Finlay’s periods used to be so heavy and painful that for two to three days a month she was effectively housebound.

‘I was in agony,’ says Diane, 50, a mother of three from Leicester. ‘I took ibuprofen but it never really got rid of the pain. So I would lie on the bed or sofa with a hot-water bottle on my tummy to try and soothe it.’

And if she had to leave the house to pick up her

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Tony Hawk’s Greatest Trick? Becoming a Middle-aged Skateboard Star

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For a long time, the skateboarding icon Tony Hawk’s career appeared to have followed the trajectory of one of his tricks: He built up momentum during the 1980s and early 1990s, launched into an airborne peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s (thanks to his success in the newly televised X Games competitions and the popularity of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games) and then made a somewhat jarring return to Earth, pulled down by age and diminished

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