ADHD

As a child I had a difficult relationship with vegetables. Except for potatoes - I loved potatoes! My diet was filled with chips. Jacket potatoes. Roast potatoes. Vegetables, however, were viewed with extreme suspicion. At the time nobody was talking about ADHD, the gut-brain connection or the microbiome. I was simply known as a “fussy eater”. As I got older, my interest in health & wellbeing grew, and what started as curiosity slowly became a mission to understand why my bod

One part of ADHD that doesn’t get talked about enough is intrusive thoughts. The mind replaying things. Becoming stuck. The “what if” spirals. Thoughts driven by fear, which feel upsetting precisely because they are unwanted. Intrusive thoughts are often associated with OCD. The NHS describes OCD obsessions as “an unwanted, intrusive and often distressing thought, image or urge” that repeatedly enters someone’s mind, and notes that having intrusive thoughts does not mean a pe