ADHD
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ADHD Hyperfocus, Lost Days and Microphone Testing
I found a voice memo from a few months ago and it nearly floored me. Not because it was dramatic. Not because it was poetic. But because it was honest. Brutally honest. I’d woken up at 6am with a simple idea. “I’ll just test a couple of microphones.” You know, for future YouTube plans. Sensible.…
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The Agony Of Hidden & Confusing Icons
I absolutely lost my rag earlier. All I wanted to do was post a quick message in a Google group chat, yet somehow I managed to post inside an existing thread. The layout looked exactly the same as starting a new one, so of course I assumed that’s what I was doing. Turns out, I…
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Facebook’s Hostile Interface Harms Neurodivergent Users
Try typing a bloody comment on Facebook these days. Your cursor hovers near a word, and boom: a pop-up suggesting pages you don’t care about. You’re mid-sentence, and Facebook’s autocomplete hijacks your keyboard to shove names and suggestions down your throat. You can’t move, type, or think without being interrupted by something trying to “help”…
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ADHD Time Struggles Are Real but The Advice You’re Getting Isn’t.
You’ve seen the posts. Green thoughtful creature pondering past, present, and future. Relatable meme, thousands of likes, comments full of “this is so me.” Then comes the advice: Feels helpful for about five seconds. Then you’re late again. Then you’re replaying yesterday’s cock-up whilst simultaneously catastrophising about tomorrow’s 2pm meeting, and you realise you’ve just…
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ADHD Diagnosis – Stuck in Limbo Without Treatment or Choice
You know something’s wrong. You’ve known for years, maybe decades. You’ve seen the comments online from people who finally got diagnosed with ADHD or autism in their 40s, 50s, 70s or even older. People who say medication changed everything (life changing, many say). People who say therapy saved them. People who found both, or neither,…
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Webcams With Wandering Backgrounds Are Utter Nonsense
Somewhere in a meeting room, a group of very pleased-with-themselves tech people decided that what video calls really needed was a camera that stalks your face around the frame like a budget Spielberg shot. Auto-framing, eye-tracking, magical “keep you in the centre” nonsense. Clever demo. Terrible experience. The sort of distracting and annoying thing that…
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Mental Health Isn’t Entertainment – The Raw Truth
I’ve just written about my own brain and how it works. Or doesn’t work, depending on the day. ADHD, depression, anxiety, the whole bloody catalogue. And I kept it raw because that’s how it needs to be. But here’s what’s been winding me up lately. Mental Health Isn’t Your Next Binge-Watch Turn on YouTube. Open…
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When Every Day Feels Like Work – Living with ADHD Burnout
When Every Day Feels Like Work and Nothing Feels Like Progress! I was scrolling through one of our group chats this morning and seeing what people are up to. One mate’s done a parkrun – he’s getting into shape, doing brilliantly. Others are talking about their Saturday plans. Shopping. Hanging out with family. Going to…
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Have you heard of REBT & is it any use for adult ADHD?
A few weeks back, I stumbled across something called REBT – Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy – and thought, “Is this one of those therapies they recommend for ADHD?” It sounded like the sort of thing that might be on a leaflet from the GP or a mental health service, so I went down the rabbit…
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What EMDR Can (and can’t) Do for ADHD
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a type of talking therapy that was originally developed to help people process traumatic experiences and PTSD. It’s now also being used for things like anxiety, phobias, and other “stuck” emotional patterns we drag around for years. Why I ended up looking at EMDR I didn’t stumble on…