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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.
For most of the month, you’ve found ways to cope. Then, a week or so before your period, everything gets louder. Your focus disappears, your fuse gets shorter and a small comment can knock you flat for days. You forget … Read more
You glance at the clock and it’s 10am. You look up again and somehow it’s 1pm, the task you meant to finish is half done and you’re already late for something else. Or you leave the house in what feels … Read more
It’s gone midnight. You’re exhausted, but your brain has just decided now is the perfect time to replay a conversation from 2014, plan a kitchen renovation and remember an email you forgot to send. By the time sleep finally arrives, … Read more
He’s the one who’s always late but somehow talks his way out of it. The one with six half-finished projects in the garage, a temper that flares and fades in minutes, and a partner who has quietly taken over the … Read more
You’re not bouncing off the walls. You never were. You’re the one who reads the email three times and still misses the key detail, who loses the thread halfway through a sentence, who sits in a meeting nodding while your … Read more
You love each other. You really do. But somewhere between the forgotten anniversary, the unanswered texts and the third conversation this month about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, things have started to feel heavy. If one or … Read more
Every October, your social feeds fill with posts about ADHD, and something in you might quietly sit up. Maybe you’ve lost your keys three times this week. Maybe you’ve started a dozen projects and finished none, or heard for years … Read more
Some people respond to a short reply, a slight change in tone, or a message left unanswered with a wave of feeling so disproportionate that they can see it is disproportionate while it is happening and still cannot stop it. … Read more
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