We aren’t born knowing how to navigate this world, earn money or even get food. We need to learn how to do all of this. Learning takes a careful balance of neurotransmitters and thought strategies. Here we look at 12 ADHD Learning Hacks to help you optimise your learning. Not all ADHDers are the same, … Read more

This guide is helping in Taming the Mess. Mess overwhelms when there seems to be far too much to do to get to clean and organised. Mess often happens when you are trying to keep more things than you have places to put things, which can happen when you down size your living space, have … Read more

Can we normalise NOT confusing someone’s FREE time with their AVAILABILITY…??? We need: This isn’t the full list of “free”. And none of that should be confused for “available”. Yes, they can be paused while an urgent thing is attended to… … but be careful whose “urgent” that is. Is it actually objectively urgent, is … Read more

Unlike many psychological and psychiatric diagnoses, Postnatal Depression actually defines itself quite. Postnatal literally describes the time after giving birth, and depression is a symptom where a person feels down, sad, numb, incapable, questions the self, has little to no energy, and may feel suicidal and or contemplate self harm. This term is reserved for … Read more

Maintaining Mental Health if frequently about resource management. Do I have enough neurotransmitter to do this task? Do I have enough bravery to overcome my anxiety to do that? Do I have enough attention to focus on this? Can I put enough towards remembering the details of this course, without having to pull the necessary … Read more

It is an important skill. We need to be able to express our reasonable needs and have them taken seriously. Seriously from and for ourselves. Seriously from our “family”. Seriously from our “friends”. Seriously from our government. Seriously from services. Too often, though, we feel that we can’t Speak Up. We fear that we are … Read more

While most people don’t need medicine regularly, the vast majority of us have benefitted from medication at some time or other. Sometimes the medicine doesn’t seem to do what we expect it to do, and that might be due to genetics affecting the way that we metabolise those medicines. Mast medications rely on particular enzymes … Read more

Over Emotion – Identifying the Adrenaline Crash When our bodies have all of the right biochemicals and our brains have the right neurotransmitter levels, we are a wonder of nature. Unlike other animals, we take in not only our surroundings, but also anticipate the future, guess at areas beyond our senses and make wise decisions … Read more

When I was born, it was clear that I had certain…. attributs. As such, part of the identity that placed on my birth certificate was “male”. My presentation certainly matches “male” and so most people assume that I am male. I’ve never got a test to check to see if my biological chromosomes or base … Read more

Sometimes Anger is reasonable, and sometimes it is not. Judging someone for being Angry may be reasonable, however, often it is not. Anger is an emotional tool to warn us that a situation is not good and may need addressing. A tool that we can use to address that problem is Aggression, which again can … Read more