ADHD Certify Featured in Female First: Why Women Are Still Waiting for an ADHD Diagnosis

For many women, ADHD can go unrecognised for years. Difficulties with attention, organisation, time management and emotional regulation may be misunderstood or attributed to other causes, particularly when someone has learned to mask or manage their symptoms. This issue was explored in Female First’s recent article, “Why women are still waiting so long for an […]

ADHD Awareness Month: Common Myths vs. Facts

ADHD myths are not harmless. They delay people from seeking assessment, increase shame in those who already have a diagnosis, and lead to unhelpful responses at home, school and work. October is ADHD Awareness Month, and the most useful thing awareness can do is replace harmful myths with careful, evidence-based facts. This article addresses 6 […]

Understanding the ADHD Experience at Halloween

ADHD Halloween is a topic that comes up every October for good reason. Halloween can be genuinely exciting, overwhelming, both, or neither for people with ADHD. The novelty, the costumes, the social energy and the disrupted routine all land differently depending on the person, their age, and what kind of day it has been.  This […]

Mindfulness for ADHD: What It Is and Why It Helps

Mindfulness for ADHD can be a useful support tool, particularly for managing stress, emotional overwhelm, and the moment when you notice your attention has wandered. It is not a cure, and it does not replace assessment, medication, or specialist ADHD support where those are needed. What it can offer, for some people, is a low-pressure […]

ADHD and Relationships

How ADHD Can Affect Romantic Relationships ADHD and relationships can be a complicated combination, but they can also be healthy and fulfilling. If you or your partner has ADHD, you may recognise certain recurring patterns: forgotten conversations, unequal household responsibilities, impulsive words that land harder than intended, or an intensity of connection that coexists with […]

ADHD and Technology Addiction in Adults

If you have ADHD and feel like your phone is impossible to put down, you are not imagining the connection. Research consistently finds associations between ADHD symptoms and problematic phone use. ADHD phone addiction is a phrase many adults with ADHD recognise in themselves, even if the clinical reality is more nuanced than the label […]

How ADHD Affects Your Child’s Learning: Everything You Need to Know

If your child has ADHD and is struggling at school, one of the most important things to understand early is this: ADHD does not affect how intelligent a child is. What it can affect is how consistently they can access their learning. This article explains how ADHD affects learning day to day, how that changes […]

Homework Tips for Children Who Struggle with Focus (Including ADHD)

Homework can become one of the most difficult parts of the day for children with focus difficulties, and for the families trying to help them. If the evening often ends in tears, arguments, or hours of stalling for what should be a twenty-minute task, you are not alone and neither is your child. This guide […]

ADHD Study Tips for University Students in the UK

Studying with ADHD at university is not about trying harder. It is about understanding why the standard advice, sit down, focus, make a plan, often falls apart, and finding approaches that work with how your brain actually regulates attention and energy. This article covers ADHD study tips grounded in how attention variability and task initiation […]

Homeschooled Children with ADHD: What Parents Should Know?

ADHD Assessment for Homeschooled Children Can a homeschooled child have an ADHD assessment? Yes, absolutely. Homeschooling changes the setting in which a child learns, but it does not change whether they can be assessed for ADHD, or what that assessment involves. This article explains how assessments work for homeschooled children, what evidence is useful when […]