Bake Off winner Candice Brown says her mental health is ‘so much worse’ after ADHD diagnosis

Candice Brown, who received Nice British Bake Off in 2016, says her psychological well being has received worse since being recognized with ADHD 21 months in the past

Nice British Bake Off winner Candice Brown has revealed her psychological well being is “a lot worse” now than after being recognized with ADHD 21 months in the past.

And the star, who received the present in 2016, says her situation is so dangerous that folks have even informed her they’re struggling to be together with her.

Candice, 36, says she knew about her psychological well being issues and had suffered from melancholy for years.

However she was solely recognized with consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction in January final 12 months, and is now working onerous with psychiatrists.

She stated: “It’s so a lot worse now. My psychological well being has taken an enormous dip the final couple of years.”

Revealing that her ADHD and the nervousness mixed are in a “horrible battle” and create a vicious circle,
she stated: “The lateness, the buzzing round and the forgetfulness causes me a lot stress and nervousness, which then makes it worse.

“Persons are kind of saying in the mean time ‘we all know you’re fairly dangerous as a result of we’re struggling to be with you’.

“One of many issues I stated as quickly as I used to be recognized was that I don’t wish to be medicated. However I’m working with psychiatrists and I do know I’ve to be as a result of it’s inflicting me extra stress than I can address in the mean time.

“I’ve been on anti-depressants and medicines and issues which have turned me into an absolute zombie and it’s not good and it does boring the bits about me that I do like.

“One of many issues with me and the ADHD and the nervousness, and after they battle – and so they struggle towards one another.

“It’s only a entire minefield however I’m engaged on it.”

Candice, who’s reported to be courting TUI government Nicky Mercer following the breakdown of her two-year marriage in 2020, stated the one time she will be able to do issues at regular pace is when she’s underneath stress – like when she was on Bake Off.

She added: “Give me 4 hours to do one thing and I’ll take 10.

“Give me 4 hours to do one thing and other people watching and stress, like Bake Off – when I’ve no alternative however to do it – I do it. I’ve at all times been referred to as icy however that’s genuinely me attempting to focus.”

Since her Bake Off victory, Candice has written books, appeared on TV exhibits akin to Dancing on Ice and likewise runs the Inexperienced Man pub in ­Eversholt, Bedfordshire.

Baking offered some kind of escape, regardless that she was struggling psychological well being troubles on the time she received the TV competitors.

However her success went on to draw web trolls, who made dying threats and attacked her look.

Some even claimed she had solely received due to her lipstick and falsely accused her of getting relationships on the present.

She informed TV star Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To podcast: “I labored so onerous as a result of I knew I needed to. However that wasn’t sufficient for individuals, it needed to be another excuse. What has the world come to?”