{"id":372885,"date":"2026-01-16T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372885\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:10","slug":"love-islands-dr-alex-georges-adhd-diagnosis-completely-changed-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/372885\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s Dr Alex George&#8217;s ADHD diagnosis &#8216;completely changed&#8217; his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Love Island&#8217;s Dr Alex George believes his ADHD and OCD diagnoses &#8220;completely changed&#8221; his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The former A&amp;E medic, who grew up in Carmarthenshire but lives in London, wants improved waiting times for assessments after paying thousands of pounds for private ADHD and autism tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In his new book, he discussed getting diagnosed and said his symptoms had been there since childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I was being blamed for things in school, even though I wasn&#8217;t in attendance that day,&#8221; George said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love Island&#8217;s Dr Alex George believes his ADHD and OCD diagnoses &#8220;completely changed&#8221; his life. The former A&amp;E&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-372885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}