I was browsing through some research about how we ADHD people have worse career and financial outcomes. As I look at my bank account and spend my morning searching for a job I felt a pang of recognition. I guess it's something we all knew but seeing someone
So you've just come out to a friend as having ADHD. They nod sympathetically and say "oh yeah I procrastinate and get distracted too". The moment lands flat and you hear crickets chirping. (My ADHD Cricket app going off in your handbag). You feel kind of
Do Superpowers Exist Only in Marvel Comics? I can't deny that I have generally felt pissed off about the problems and turmoil brought to my life by ADHD. I look back at all the trouble it has caused me with frustration and sadness. I have noticed that when
Okay, I’m going to be honest. I used to think things from plants or from health food stores were a lot different than proper medicines. I believed they were milder, safer, and wouldn’t give you the serious difficulties you’d find described in medical publications. But I'
I have a phone app for a 'Things to do' list, open on every device I own. My phone, my laptop, my tablet. It has two lists.". It sits on my desk when I'm working, moves to the kitchen when I'm cooking and
I've been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between stress and ADHD. Specifically about something I hadn't quite joined up until recently. Most of us with ADHD know that the part of the brain that handles focus, planning and impulse control, the prefrontal cortex, isn&
Do you ever have days when your ADHD seems to be loads worse and you can't figure out why? I call these my 'white noise days'. My mind is hovering around like a wasp on drugs and won't seem to land on anything long
If you have ADHD, you already know the feeling. You sit down to work. You've got a plan. You know exactly what needs doing. Then twenty minutes later you're reading about the migratory patterns of Arctic Kookaburra and you have no idea how you got there.