2022 has introduced numerous lifetime improvements — a new dwelling, new positions, recently single, new health and fitness center (that I have nonetheless to visit). I’m in and out of London like a yo-yo, meeting hundreds of new persons and having difficulties to set names to faces and companies. I […]
ADHD
For far more than a calendar year, I felt progressively “off” – a feeling introduced on, no question, by the pandemic. My mind fog was creating anything truly feel squishy. Unfinished initiatives had been piling up. I was forgetting points. Dropping points. Getting rid of my mood. I experienced begun […]
My partner at the time spelled out to me, in pain-staking detail, why J. R. R. Tolkien excised each French phrase from The Lord of the Rings saga, down to swapping “Bag’s End” for the French-derived “cul-de-sac.” The rationalization lasted 45 minutes I know due to the fact I counted […]
Q: “When the holidays roll around, my kids’ ADHD symptoms get worse. They stay up late, sleep in, and have no daily structure. When family comes over, my younger one retreats and my older one wants to escape to see friends. My family is visiting for a week in December […]
I have recently given myself permission to fidget without shame. I walk around, tap my feet, and bend my paperclips – ADHD behaviors that help my brain work properly, but that I hid or resisted for a long time. In school and in social settings, my hyperactivity – in the […]
I am an information junkie; a researcher to the core, especially when it comes to something that is relevant to my life. Recently my son received an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis. For me, it is important to know every single thing I can about the subject, and how […]