ADHD and Sex Drive: From Hypersexuality to Low Libido
Too much. Too little. Sometimes both in the same week. ADHD doesn’t create one kind of sex drive, it creates an unstable one. If your sex drive feels unpredictable, you’re...
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ADHD paralysis is one of the most debilitating aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It can affect one’s capacity to show up in their daily life and, as a result, often create a downward spiral of inaction and indecision. If this persists, over time, it can lead to depression and a loss of self-esteem. […]
Too much. Too little. Sometimes both in the same week. ADHD doesn’t create one kind of sex drive, it creates an unstable one. If your sex drive feels unpredictable, you’re...
The same brain that loses track in meetings doesn’t switch off in the bedroom. Understanding why can be the first step toward something different. You know you want to be...
You know you should put it down. You’ve told yourself a hundred times. But your thumb keeps scrolling, and an hour disappears before you’ve even noticed it starting. This is...
People with ADHD often interrupt. They know they do it. They hate that they do it. And yet the words come out anyway, cutting across someone mid-sentence before they’ve even...
When someone keeps ruining the things they say they want, it’s rarely about willpower. Something else is going on. Finding the success we want in life is hard. There are...
People with ADHD are at higher risk of ending up in friendships and relationships where they get dismissed. Put down. Pushed to the bottom of a hierarchy. Not occasionally, but...
Something feels wrong, but you can’t quite name it. Have you even found yourself explaining away behaviours that left you feeling small and hurt? Perhaps initially you wondered whether you...
When you’re trying to find help, the terminology can feel like a barrier. Psychologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, counsellor, therapist. The words get used interchangeably but they mean different things. Here’s what...
The term “Daddy Issues” gets thrown around so casually that it has lost most of its meaning. Someone dates an older man Someone needs reassurance in a relationship Someone has...
You already know what you should be eating. You have read the articles, saved the recipes, maybe even bought the vegetables. And yet here you are at 4pm, realising you...