Understand your ADHD
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Evidence-based information, practical strategies and compassionate ADHD coaching for adults who want more clarity and less overwhelm.
Whether you've recently been diagnosed with ADHD, have known for years, or are simply wondering whether ADHD might explain some of the things you've struggled with, you're in the right place.
Where are you right now?
There isn't one ADHD journey. You may be looking for answers, trying to make sense of a recent diagnosis, or wondering how to turn understanding into change.
Start with whichever feels closest to where you are today.
Perhaps you've always struggled with focus, organisation, procrastination, impulsivity or feeling overwhelmed. Maybe someone has suggested ADHD, or something you've read suddenly feels familiar.
Find out more about ADHD, common signs in adults and the options for seeking an assessment.
Diagnosis can bring answers, but it can also bring a lot of questions.
Learn more about how ADHD can affect everyday life, relationships, work, emotions and executive functioning, and explore practical strategies that can make life easier.
Understanding ADHD can explain why some things have been difficult. But understanding alone doesn't always make them easier.
ADHD coaching can help you identify what is getting in the way, work with your brain rather than constantly against it, and develop practical approaches that fit your life.
About me
My name is Mike and I was diagnosed with ADHD three years ago at the age of 58. The diagnosis had a profound impact on me. For the first time in my life, I started to get an understanding of who I was. Why I responded to people in certain ways, why I acted in certain ways, why I struggled with certain things but excelled at others. Life has been a rollercoaster - but at least now I am begining to understand why.
I have worked in the voluntary sector for most of my career with the past 25 years as a CEO for a number of organisations. I am currently training as an ADHD Coach as I felt that I could have a positive impact on people who, like me, have come to a diagnosis of ADHD later in life.
This site is about high quality information, collated so that it is easy to understand and useful in a sea of misinformation. Want to know more? You can contact me here.
ADHD information without the noise
There is an extraordinary amount of information about ADHD.
Some of it is excellent. Some is oversimplified. Some makes confident claims that the research doesn't necessarily support.
Clarity After Chaos is about making things clearer.
I look at research, guidance and emerging ideas about ADHD and translate them into straightforward, accessible information.
That means looking beyond the headline to ask:
- What does the research actually say?
- How strong is the evidence?
- What doesn't it tell us?
- Does it matter in everyday life?
- What, if anything, can you do with that information?
No hype. No miracle solutions. Just good information explained clearly.
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Understanding ADHD
ADHD is about more than attention
ADHD can affect many different parts of everyday life.
You might recognise difficulties with:
- starting tasks, even when they are important
- managing time and being consistently late
- organisation and keeping track of things
- procrastination and getting stuck
- maintaining focus on things that aren't stimulating
- becoming intensely absorbed in things that are
- impulsive decisions
- emotional regulation
- sleep and routines
- feeling overwhelmed
- remembering what you intended to do
For many adults, particularly those diagnosed later in life, discovering ADHD can change the way they understand their past.
It doesn't rewrite that past.
But it can provide a different explanation for it.
And that understanding can be the starting point for doing things differently.
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