Raising awareness of all things ADHD!
Monday has never been my friend, it always slams into me like a fierce wave before tossing around before plonking me back on land then doing it all over again. It may sound dramatic but I can’t stress enough how dramatically Monday impacts my executive functioning. Executive functioning is basically all the skills required to get things done, so you can understand why its major […]
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I don’t know what’s wrong with me of late, but I seem to have had awful brain fog. I can’t tell whether I have a sinus infection which is impacting it, but it totally sucks because clarity of thought at the moment is very few and in between. So I’m going to keep this week’s blog article as short and sweet as I possibly can…..famous […]
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These past few days feels like ive got a new lease of life and its probably because we’re finally getting a few sunny days here and there. This means goodbyeee seasomal affective disorder and hello clearer thinking. That probably explains why ive been totally decluttering my house lately and getting more organised. I feel like i can finally put the pieces of my life back […]
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Did you know that statistically speaking working class people are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD? It’s a strange one but come to think of it you don’t really hear of many millionaires being diagnosed with the condition. Of course the working class make up the majority of the population, but you’d still expect the percentage of those with ADHD be the same across […]
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Ever had one of those days where you wake up and you feel nothing? No happiness? No sadness….you just are going along with whatever life throws at you but without the complication of feeling anything. It’s almost like you’ve took antidepressants, but you can’t remember taking them, It almost sounds pretty good, right? Well I can’t stand days like that! I’m having one of those […]
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Today I saw an article about a person who said that her ADHD prevents her from being employed. At first I was like I don’t like how she is using her ADHD as a reason, but then I caught myself and reminded myself not to buy into the stereotype of it’s only an excuse etc. I also remembered that when I was much younger, about […]
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Anybody feel like the month of January has lasted a year?? There isn’t much going on, it’s wet and cold (if you live in the UK) and most people are poor from spending all their hard earnt money at Christmas. Well I’ve not almost recovered from the drama of last week and if all the stuff in the last blog article wasn’t enough for you […]
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So yesterday, I had what can only be described as some sort of mini meltdown!! The reason for it? Well to get you to understand the levels of stress and insanity I’ve endured over the past week and a half let me give you some context; we’ve recently had building work done on the house. This means we’ve had to pack up our house and […]
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Hey ADHDers! Hope you are all well rested and had a great Christmas however you decided to spend it. Happy New Year to all of you; I hope you have a year full of support and amazing experiences. My Christmas day morning was like something out of my own personal nightmare, and it wasn’t because anything went wrong, or anybody got hurt. It was because […]
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Sadly this week I’ve been really low on the emotional energy front which is common for people with ADHD. We either have too much energy that comes out as overexcitement or too little energy which means we lose a lot of motivation. There doesn’t seem to be much in between. Yet, because of the low emotionally energy I’ve had, I’ve been doing some reflection about […]
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Ok, I don’t usually publish more than one blog article a week because I have a lot going on, but I had to get this out because I am furious!! Of course us ADHDers are known for having a quick temper but in this matter I think logically I’m quite justified. Last night I was watching a well-known TV programme here in the UK on […]
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So on this blog we always talk about the struggles we have, how we find daily tasks difficult, how people find us hard to take but rarely do we pause and think maybe the problem doesn’t lie with us? Firstly, of course ADHD exists and of course it makes our lives difficult and of course it’s hard for those who love us to manage it […]
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The other day I saw an article in a mainstream newspaper that was titled ‘Here’s Five Things that may mean you have ADHD. I clicked and started reading with Interest. Now can you guess what these things were? Well one of them was bumping into things and another was forgetting things. I face palmed myself when I’d finished reading it, not because it was totally […]
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Nothing says ADHD than a complete meltdown because of the general routine change of a Monday morning. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think anyone is a big fan but I don’t think anybody loses their crap like us ADHDers. We all try to cope with it in different ways too, for some of us it may be having a duvet day and pretending it […]
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