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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that can affect attention, organisation, emotional regulation, impulsivity, and everyday life. While many people associate ADHD with hyperactivity, it can also influence relationships, work, education, self-esteem, and mental wellbeing in ways that are not always immediately recognised. In this section you’ll find a collection of articles exploring ADHD, its symptoms, diagnosis, emotional impact, practical coping strategies, relationships, and life with ADHD. If you’re looking for professional support, use the links below to learn more about our ADHD counselling services or book a free consultation.
A great many women reach their thirties, forties or fifties before anyone so much as mentions ADHD, and the suggestion very often arrives from somewhere entirely unexpected, a child’s assessment, an offhand remark from a colleague, an article read at … Read more
If you have ADHD and you have spent years watching yourself in social situations, adjusting your tone, slowing your speech, suppressing the impulse to interrupt, performing a version of attentiveness you do not actually feel, you may be masking. ADHD … Read more
The first thing worth saying about ADHD burnout recovery is that pushing harder will not work. The effort that drives someone into burnout cannot be the thing that drives them out of it. Recovery begins when the demands are reduced, … Read more
There is a particular kind of exhausted that people with ADHD describe, not the tiredness that follows a hard week, but something that has weight to it, something that has been building for longer than they realised and does not … Read more
AuDHD is the informal but widely used term for the experience of being both autistic and having ADHD. It is not a clinical diagnosis in its own right, a person receives a diagnosis of autism spectrum condition, ADHD, or both, … Read more
ADHD is being debated again. Following Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth?, questions about what ADHD is, why diagnoses have risen and whether modern life is to blame have moved firmly back into public conversation. Scrutiny is not a bad … Read more
You keep it together, mostly. To everyone else you look capable, even high-achieving. But behind that is a private, exhausting effort, the lists you lose, the deadlines you only just scrape, the way your mind races and stalls at the … Read more
You have spent years feeling like two different people. One part of you craves routine, quiet and the same lunch every day. Another part is restless, easily bored, and already chasing the next idea before the last one is finished. … Read more
You know exactly what you need to do. The task is not even difficult. You have the time, you have the ability, and part of you genuinely wants to begin. Yet you sit there, unable to move, as though an … Read more
For years, you got there in the end. Deadlines were met in a last-minute sprint, energy appeared when it really mattered, and somehow the plates kept spinning. Read more