Insights on ADHD diagnosis, treatment, research, and living well with neurodiversity.
If your child has ADHD and seems magnetically drawn to screens, you are not imagining it — and you are not failing as a parent. Children with ADHD are significantly more likely to develop problematic screen habits than neurotypical peers.
Depression and ADHD are not just conditions that sometimes happen to appear in the same person — they are deeply entangled at a biological, psychological, and lived-experience level. Research consistently finds that adults with ADHD are two to three times more likely to develop major depressive disorder than those without it, and that when depression does occur alongside ADHD, it tends to be more severe, more persistent, and harder to treat in isolation. Understanding why they co-occur, how to tell them apart, and what actually helps is essential for anyone navigating both.
If you have ever searched online for "ADHD test" or "do I have ADHD," you have likely noticed that the options have changed dramatically in recent years. Alongside traditional clinical checklists and self-report questionnaires, a new wave of AI-powered assessment tools has emerged — tools that analyse attention patterns, response consistency, and behavioural data in ways that paper forms simply cannot. But what does this shift actually mean for people seeking answers about their attention, and how reliable is AI in the context of ADHD diagnosis?
Emotional dysregulation is increasingly recognised as one of the most impairing — and least understood — features of ADHD. It is not a side effect or a secondary complication. It is a core neurological difference that affects how quickly emotions are triggered, how intensely they are experienced, and how long it takes to return to baseline. For many adults with ADHD, it is the symptom that causes the most damage: to relationships, careers, and self-worth.
The idea that the gut could influence attention, mood, and behavior would have sounded far-fetched twenty years ago. Today it sits at the center of one of the most active areas in neuroscience research. The gut-brain axis — the bidirectional communication network between the digestive system and the central nervous system — has become a serious focus for researchers studying ADHD, and early findings are striking enough to be worth understanding.
For kids with ADHD, screens are especially hard to resist — and especially hard to put down. That's not a parenting failure or a willpower problem. It's a direct result of how ADHD affects the brain's reward circuitry.
If you have ADHD, there's a better-than-even chance you also deal with anxiety. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), up to 50% of adults with ADHD meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder, and up to 60% of children with ADHD experience clinically significant anxiety symptoms. These aren't just two conditions that happen to coexist — they interact in ways that make each one harder to manage.
Medication remains the most evidence-backed first-line treatment for ADHD — but roughly 20-30% of people with ADHD don't respond adequately to stimulants, and many others experience side effects that limit their usefulness. For this group, and for parents who prefer to exhaust non-pharmacological options first, nutritional supplements have become an area of genuine scientific interest.