ADHD and Sleep: Why Your Brain Won’t Switch Off
You know you need sleep. You want to sleep. But the moment your head hits the pillow, your brain has other plans. For people with ADHD, this isn’t a discipline...
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Medication and a proper assessment do most of the heavy lifting in ADHD care. What they tend to leave behind is the emotional side. The flash of anger that lands before you can think. The way a mild criticism can flatten an entire afternoon. The words that are out of your mouth a moment before […]
You know you need sleep. You want to sleep. But the moment your head hits the pillow, your brain has other plans. For people with ADHD, this isn’t a discipline...
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...