"Ultimately, dance enhances the coordination of neural activity that allows different parts of the brain to “talk” to each other more seamlessly. This state may help regulate the atypical brain activity and connectivity commonly seen in neurodivergent individuals."
Slowly but surely, science is starting to catch up with what most ADHD people have long known—it’s not just about “attention.” When stimulants work, they don’t do so by changing the brain’s attention circuitry at all:
“The medications primarily target the brain’s reward and wakefulness centers.”
“Whatever it is you are seeking won't come in the form you are expecting.”
- Haruki Murakami
"The study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that people with ADHD symptoms tend to experience more spontaneous cognitive events, including not only future-oriented mind wandering but also unintentional recollections of past experiences."
The hidden burden of undiagnosed ADHD is constantly inventing excuses in an attempt to explain behavior that you don’t even understand yourself.
“The sheer number of connections my brain makes in a day brings me the most joy. I have never completely lost my childlike wonder or curiosity. I’m grateful for this trait every day. It keeps me going when everything else becomes an unbearable grind.”
Glad to see an article about this—it's rarely talked about!
"Every time you minimize your intelligence, qualify your insights, or pretend uncertainty, you are still acting from the child trying to not trigger envy & attack. But perhaps the second half of your life asks something different of you."
“People with ADHD often have a special feel for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.”
- Dr. Edward Hallowell
"Mind wandering is one of the critical resources on which the remarkable creativity of high-functioning ADHD individuals is based. This makes them such an incredibly valuable asset for our society and the future of our planet."
#ADHDAwarenessMonth
Circular flowchart. “Too anxious to start on anything” leads into “stressed about not getting anything done,” then back to “too anxious to start on anything”—creating an endless loop.
This x 100000 = mood
#ADHDAwarenessMonth
"It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial... It began to occur to me that unless I had a need to demonstrate my own cleverness & learning, I would do better to rely upon the client for the direction of movement in the process."
- Carl Rogers
“What really struck us was … people talking about how navigating the challenges of ADHD had actually made them more empathetic, more accepting of others [and] better at handling adversity.”
- @neuranne.bsky.social
"It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluable become soluable when someone hears; how confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is understood."
- Carl Rogers
“Inside every person I’ve ever met with ADHD is a wellspring of creativity — a creativity so integral to who we are and how we’re made, that our health and happiness seems to hinge on embracing and expressing it fully.“
Trying to! Because, sadly/amazingly, even many therapists aren’t aware of it. It’s almost always one of the first things I check in around/talk about with new clients—and something that helps explain sooo much to late-diagnosed ADHD people.
the ADHD ability to go from “i’m a genius” to “what if i never amount to anything???” in under 3 seconds
My heart breaks every day. So much gratitude to all the VA clinicians out there who serve veterans and help them recover from the harms of service. Veterans and their clinicians deserve better than this. 💔. #psychscisky #therapistsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/u...
I do this all the time, and it really, truly helps! Take the big scary project you've been avoiding & do it for 5 minutes. The big scary thing becomes, instead, simply an unfinished task—which your brain will then much more likely want to figure out how to finish.
Long live the Zeigarnik Effect :)
If you struggle with excessive rumination, this conversation between @howtoadhd.bsky.social & Dr. Ned Hallowell might just be the best thing you watch today:
"Everything in ADHD has two sides. The most wonderful gift we have is our imagination; the most horrible curse we have is our imagination."
This is an oversimplification, of course, but it’s worth noting what recent studies have found:
“ADHD can be a serious problem but it’s a problem *in large measure* because of today’s environments.” www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
As societies changed their values & priorities over time—set up, largely, by neurotypical brains who are better at organizing and building society & bent towards “productivity” as they defined it—those of us with ADHD-type brains were suddenly more problematic, our strengths reframed as negatives.
For more than 90% of human existence, humans mostly lived as hunter-gatherers. ADHD brains, especially, thrived and were highly valued in tribes and villages. But then came the Neolithic Revolution and a slow transition to agriculture, which gave rise to cities and civilizations, & a new way of life
Seems silly to have to say, but there’s enough misunderstanding out there, so:
Neurodivergence in human brains is a good thing, and a net positive for humanity and the world. We need all types of brains in a group/village/community, and always have as human beings. 🧵
“We have shown, using a large sample and a second independent clinical sample, that emotion dysregulation is a core symptom and a route to ADHD, which may not respond to the current pharmacological treatments for ADHD.”
thank you! 🙏
After Robyn Fivush got married, she noticed something about her then-husband's family: they told the same story every year, without fail, at Thanksgiving.
“And it had to get told the same way, with the same punchlines, every year.”
This week, how family stories shape who we are.
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Would love to be added, thanks!
“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.”
- Sarah Manguso
amazing jesse!! 📚 💪
My life is pretty much just wildly swinging between:
• too close to boredom, better do more
• too close to burnout, better do less