ADHD

This ADHD Awareness Month, I've been talking about knowing our barriers and adjustments, using our voice, and the importance of regulation and connection. A recent experience reminded me of why it is so important to translate awareness into action, and that even when we have the awareness, it can still sometimes be a challenge to stop and listen to our bodies. Some years ago, I attended a course with Dr Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist and internationally recognised ADHD spe

When a colleague asked me recently what my biggest personal awareness about ADHD had been, my immediate answer was regulation. But I realised I wanted to go deeper to explain what that word actually means, and why understanding it has become so important to me. We often talk about ADHD in terms of “concentration”, “organisation” and “forgetfulness”. However, there is also the experience of what happens within us as we try to manage everyday life: how we respond to pressure, h

This ADHD Awareness Month, I would like to talk about reasonable adjustments, not simply what organisations should be doing, but what we can do to understand and communicate our own needs. The Equality Act 2010 places a legal duty on organisations in certain circumstances to make reasonable adjustments for disabled people. For services and public functions, that duty is anticipatory: organisations should be thinking about barriers before a disabled person even comes through t

Article first published in Sussex World, 21st Jul 2026, 12:06 BST, by Sam Morton Chief Reporter A Chichester-based neurodiversity professional is calling for a broader and more balanced conversation about ADHD, as the condition continues to feature prominently in national media coverage. Kim Algar, founder of ADHD4Adults, said public discussions about ADHD can influence how employers, families, schools and communities understand people living with the condition. Her comments

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