Kate

  • Feeling Deflated? Sames.

    Do you ever just wilt? Not dramatically. Just…meh.  Like someone left you in the sun too long and now you’re just sort of lying there.  Limp and weird. That’s me lately. Not sad. Not in crisis. Just flat. Like a balloon that’s given up. And I keep thinking, is it the heat? Maybe. Probably. Definitely-ish.… Read more

  • The Productivity Bender: Who Was She, and Can She Come Back Every Tuesday?

    Last night, I wrote a to-do list. Not just a casual jot-down of vibes and vague intentions. This was a full-blown strategic plan of attack. Forty items. Four. Zero. Because my parents are coming to visit at the weekend, and my brain decided that the only acceptable way to welcome them is to pretend I… Read more

  • My Brain is Louder than My Students

    The classroom is buzzing. Kids chatter, pencils scratch, and the bell hums in the background. But inside my head, it is a damn rave. Thoughts sprinting, reminders screaming, that weird panic about a missed email, and the eternal question: Did I leave the iron on? Meanwhile, a student waves their hand in front of me,… Read more

  • When Motivation Is Guilt in Disguise

    And how ADHD complicates everything About a month ago, something strange happened. My anxiety disappeared. Not completely, not forever, but for the first time in my life, the constant background buzz of hypervigilance just stopped. It was sudden, and honestly, kind of miraculous. I could sleep. I could breathe. I could relax without my brain… Read more

  • My ADHD Journey and Why the UK’s Wait Times Just Aren’t Good Enough

    I first started my ADHD journey back in 2022. I wasn’t even sure where to begin, but after finally getting a referral, it took three whole months only to be told it was rejected because there wasn’t enough information (there was literally a letter from a leading psychiatrist, but apparently that is not enough information).… Read more

  • A wink that ruined my walk

    This post is a little different. It is not about me, my ADHD, my mental health, or anything else I have discuss. It is about something that women around the world have to deal with on a daily basis. Today I was walking a familiar trail. It’s well-used, safe on paper, the kind of route… Read more

  • Why I Will Happily Struggle Alone Until I Snap

    I don’t know if this is an ADHD thing or just a me thing, but asking for help feels like one of the hardest things I ever have to do. And not in a dramatic kind of way. I mean in that quiet, awkward way where I’d rather take on absolutely everything myself and then… Read more

  • The Quiet Strength That Pushes Me Forward

    I remember a few months back, a person I work with suggested that people who have anxiety, or other similar conditions just lack resilience.  I disagree, I actually think I’m one of the most resilient people I know.  And that got me thinking, what does resilience actually mean to me?  I think everyone sees it… Read more

  • Anxiety? What Anxiety?

    I have always been an anxious person, I maybe did not know that until relatively recently, but it’s always been there. Not necessarily visible to others all the time but I live my life on high alert, more so due to trauma, but even before that I had, what are now obvious, symptoms of anxiety.… Read more

  • A day in the life of an unhinged millennial…

    Finally, almost a week after the day in question, I am getting round to writing this post! It’s going to be a pretty boring read, I mean no one can have a perfectly exciting day, can they? So without too much foreplay, here is a day in my life. 7:00 am:  Alarm went off at… Read more