Articles
Two kinds of writing live here. Methods are practices you can try: starting, planning, keeping a routine. Guides are sourced summaries of what is known about diagnosis, treatment and everyday life with ADHD. The badge shows how much attention an article asks for: Short, Medium or Long.
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What Are the Symptoms of ADHD in Adults?
How ADHD looks in adulthood: symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and inner restlessness, how the criteria change for adults and why a list is not enough.
6 min - MediumGuide
What Causes ADHD? Causes, and Things That Do Not
What is known today about the causes of ADHD: the share of heredity, prenatal factors, association versus causation and things shown not to be causes.
6 min - MediumGuide
What Is Inattentive ADHD? ADHD Without Hyperactivity
Not the ADHD that cannot sit still, but the one that drifts away quietly. Symptoms of the inattentive type, why it is noticed so late and why it is missed in women.
6 min - MediumGuide
ADHD or Anxiety? Telling Them Apart
Both disrupt focus and both cause restlessness. Three signs that tell them apart, the overlapping symptoms and why it can be both.
6 min - MediumGuide
Are ADHD and Autism the Same Thing?
The two pictures are often confused and often occur together. Where they look alike, where they differ and what it means when both are present.
6 min - MediumGuide
Does ADHD Go Away, or Does It Continue Into Adulthood?
What happens to an ADHD diagnosis made in childhood, the fluctuating course found by long follow-up studies and what it means in daily life.
6 min - MediumGuide
The 12 Most Common Myths About ADHD
A boys' disorder, you grow out of it, everyone is a bit like that, medication is addictive. The claims heard most often and what the research says.
6 min - MediumGuide
What Is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)?
A small criticism that topples a whole day, an unanswered message that will not leave the mind for hours. What RSD means and what the evidence says.
6 min - MediumGuide
Dopamine and Motivation in ADHD
What does dopamine actually do, why does the reward system work differently in ADHD, and what ways of bringing a delayed reward closer work in daily life?
6 min - Medium
Emotional Dysregulation in ADHD
Emotional overflow is not in the diagnostic criteria, yet most people living with it say it is the hardest part. Why it happens and what really helps.
6 min - MediumGuide
Hyperfocus: The Most Misunderstood Side of ADHD
I can sink into one subject for hours but cannot start the job that needs doing. Why hyperfocus is not a contradiction and how it is directed.
6 min - MediumGuide
ADHD in Women: Why Diagnosis Is Late, and the Role of Hormones
An explanation for the years I could not find myself in the definition. Why ADHD is seen late in women and how the picture changes across a lifetime.
6 min - Medium
Time Blindness in ADHD: Knowing the Clock, Not Feeling the Time
Time blindness is not being able to feel in the body that time has passed. Where it comes from, what it leads to and methods that make time visible from outside.
6 min - Medium
Body Doubling: Why You Can Start When Someone Is Beside You
I opened an envelope I had not opened for months in five minutes with someone beside me. Why body doubling works, how to set it up and for whom it does not hold.
6 min - MediumGuide
What Are Executive Functions, and Why Are They Hard in ADHD?
I knew what to do and how to do it. What stood in between turned out to be called executive functions. Who is on the team and how it is supported from outside.
6 min - Medium
Task Paralysis: Knowing What to Do and Being Unable to Start
Task paralysis is being unable to start although you know the job. How it differs from procrastination, what lies beneath it and practical steps that open the lock.
6 min