Rumination Loops in Neurodivergent Depression: Why Your Brain Replays Everything
Rumination is the brain’s replay mode. A thought arrives… and instead of moving through and past it, your mind keeps circling it: 🔁 the same…
Author: Johan Lammers, MSc
I founded sensoryoverload.info after being diagnosed with AuDHD in my early forties. Through this platform, I share what I continue to learn, in the hope that it helps neurodivergent adults feel less alone, better understand themselves, and find approaches that fit their lives. I draw on my MSc in Psychology, years of hyperfocused neurodiversity research, and my own ongoing experience of living with AuDHD.
I’d love to connect with others in the neurodivergent community on LinkedIn and/or X.
Depression or Burnout? A Nervous-System Map to Tell the Difference
Many neurodivergent adults move through periods where life becomes smaller, energy drops, and everything feels harder to access. Sometimes that state is primarily: 🪫 mood-driven…
AuDHD Depression: When Executive Dysfunction, Sensory Load, and Social Strain Collide
AuDHD depression often feels like a triple-load crash. 🧠 executive coordination gets harder (starting, planning, switching)🎧 sensory tolerance shrinks (sound, light, texture, crowds)🤝 social bandwidth…
ADHD and Depression: Why Motivation and Pleasure Can Disappear Overnight
ADHD-depression often feels less like “sadness” and more like drive collapse. One week you can still function (even if it’s chaotic).The next week your system…
Autism and Depression in Adults: How Masking and Overload Quietly Build Up
Depression in autistic adults often develops as a quiet accumulation. Instead of one clear trigger, it can build through months or years of: 🎭 social…
Neurodivergent Depression: Signs, Overlap and Support
Neurodivergent depression” is a descriptive phrase, not a formal diagnosis. It refers to depression experienced by a neurodivergent person—and to the ways lifelong traits, communication…
25 Signs of Autism in Adults
Possible signs of autism in adults include lifelong differences in social communication, sensory processing, routines, focused interests and responses to change or overload. Autism is…
ADHD Sleep Dysregulation: Why You Can’t Wind Down
Many adults with ADHD describe the same evening pattern: 🕰️ it is late and you know you should sleep🧠 the brain stays active even when…
ADHD Activation Energy: Why Starting Tasks Can Feel So Hard
You may spend hours avoiding a task that becomes surprisingly manageable once you finally begin. The work itself is not always the hardest part. The…
ADHD Impulse Spending vs Dopamine Spending
How to Tell the Difference (and What to Track) Spending behaviour in ADHD is often described as “impulsive.” That label is incomplete. Many neurodivergent adults…