Why Everything Feels Worse After a Bad Night: Sleep Debt and the ADHD Emotional Brain
One short night raises the brain's threat response by around 60% and weakens the circuit that calms it down. Here's why that lands hard on an ADHD brain — and what helps that isn't a melatonin protocol.
Why So Many Women Find Out They Have ADHD After 30
Women are diagnosed with ADHD years later than men — often after decades in mental health services. Here are the four reasons that keeps happening, and what to do if you recognise yourself.
Hyperfocus: Gift, Trap, or Both? An Honest Guide to ADHD's Most Romanticised Symptom
Hyperfocus is the one ADHD trait people are willing to envy — and the least well-defined thing in the literature. Here's what the research actually says, including the parts that complicate the superpower story.
The "Interest-Based Nervous System": Why "It's Important" Isn't Enough to Keep an ADHD Brain Going
"Interest-based nervous system" is community language, not a research finding — but it's a folk summary of several things that are genuinely well evidenced. Here's the honest version.
The ADHD Tax: What Executive Dysfunction Actually Costs — and How to Shrink It Without Shame
The "ADHD tax" is community language for a real pattern: late fees, dead subscriptions, wasted food, missed deadlines. Here's the science underneath it — and how to shrink the bill without shame.
ADHD "Waiting Mode": Why a 3pm Appointment Eats the Whole Day
One appointment at 3pm and the whole day is gone. "Waiting mode" isn't a clinical term — but the time perception, working memory and anxiety research underneath it is real, and it points at what actually helps.
The "Afternoon Crash" and Medication "Tolerance": Which of These Worries Hold Up?
In the one trial that measured it, rebound was rarer on medication than on placebo — and tolerance to therapeutic effects is largely folk wisdom. An honest calibration of two very common fears.
Is ADHD Genetic? Heritability, Trauma, and What "It Runs in Families" Really Means
ADHD is one of the most heritable conditions in psychiatry — but "88% heritable" does not mean 88% of your ADHD was caused by genes. Here's what the number actually says, and where trauma genuinely fits.
Emotional Dysregulation: The Biggest ADHD Symptom That Isn't in the Manual
Emotions that arrive at full volume and take hours to come down are one of the best-evidenced features of adult ADHD — and one of the few not listed as a core symptom. Here's the science, and what actually helps.
"Object Permanence" and ADHD: Out of Sight, Out of Mind — What's Actually Going On
"ADHD object permanence" is borrowed baby-psychology and technically wrong — you know the yoghurt exists. The real mechanism is working memory, and it has much better fixes.