Raising awareness of all things ADHD!
Nobody likes to think of themselves as getting older, but it’s going to happen whether we want it to or not. I read an article the other day that says as we get older dopamine levels decrease by 10% for each decade. Wait, hold on a minute, no wonder I feel like my ADHD is getting worse with age, but then what does that mean […]
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A few weeks ago, a friend handed me an article about a study on ADHD that was published in a scientific journal. It found that children with African ancestry have genetic differences for the cause of ADHD that that of children with ADHD from European ancestry. 875 children took part in the study (where they were looking at the differences between ADHD genes and non-ADHD […]
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Last week the kids and I went to Spring Harvest and while there I attended a sermon on mental health. Dont worry I’m not going to start preaching about my faith to you!! Yet, was something in that sermon that really got me thinking and it was this; life is so much more faster than it used to be and we’re all struggling to keep […]
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So, as most of you know I’m a foster parent, which is challenging but rewarding. Recently I’ve had the opportunity to deliver some new training on ADHD awareness for my fostering agency, which has amazing and also required much research. Of course, I know what it’s like to have ADHD, but the research was around the science behind it. What I discovered was very interesting […]
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Hello, my ADHD friends and associates, today I saw something that got my blood boiling, can you imagine what it was? It was another article questioning whether ADHD even exists!! How are we still having this conversation in the 21st century?? I’d be ok if it was just simpletons or uneducated dimwits who were coming out with these statements, but the people making these totally […]
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I’ve seen a lot of articles recently that state that the amount of people being diagnosed with ADHD recently is through the roof, especially amongst adults. So what’s causing this change? Is it merely that people are developing symptoms in later life due to environmental factors or is just that they missed being diagnosed at an early stage? Either way we’ll look at both sides […]
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So after a few sessions with my therapist, I realised that my writing is so interlinked with my emotional well-being. I mean I kind of always knew it deep down, but it’s amazing the stuff that comes out when you are supposed to be writing a work of fiction. It’s rather like acting, that everything becomes a self-portrait; no matter how hard you try. It’s […]
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