Graham Herterich: 'The day I was diagnosed with ADHD at 46, it was like everything clicked'

Until two years ago, baker and cookbook author Graham Herterich had spent his life grappling with, and being exhausted by, constantly overlapping and competing thoughts. A diagnosis of ADHD in 2024 marked a sea change

Graham Herterich: 'My primary school days were tough. I couldn’t expel my energy through running around, so it was all internalised very much in my head and in my toes; I’d scrunch my toes an awful lot to expel energy.' Pictures: Alf Harvey

I’m 48 now — I was diagnosed with ADHD in November 2024. I’d started counselling a year before — one of the best things I ever did. Something had come up about the way my brain worked.

I described it to the counsellor: 20,000 competing tabs open at once; my brain feels like that, constantly thinking four or five things at one time.