I’ve sat in on more first consultations than I can count at this point. Most start the same way, more or less. A parent sitting across the table. Not sure how to even begin saying what’s been happening at home. Last month it was a mother. Her son hadn’t left his room in weeks, and […]
There’s a part of this that people rarely talk about openly — the weeks where everything feels wide open. You barely sleep and don’t even miss it. Ideas show up faster than you can act on them. Spending money feels harmless. Decisions that should take days feel obvious in seconds. And then, often with barely
A patient once told me she’d started leaving for work twenty minutes early — not for traffic, but because she needed that extra time to check the stove, the iron, and the door lock, in that exact order, sometimes twice. She knew it made no sense. She did it anyway. That’s the strange, exhausting part
“So ADHD Treatment” gets said about anyone who loses focus for an afternoon. That’s not actually what this is. It’s a genuine neurological condition affecting attention, impulse control, and sometimes a restlessness that doesn’t budge no matter how hard someone tries to sit still. It also wears different faces. A hyperactive kid bouncing around a
Three in the morning. Staring at the ceiling. Doing the math on how many hours you’d get if sleep happened right now, this second. Familiar scene? Then you already know the usual advice doesn’t do much. No caffeine after 2pm. Phone away. Warm milk, sure. None of that touches an actual sleep disorder. Manages the
