Depression often creates a painful contradiction: doing something may help, but depression makes starting, choosing, organizing, and continuing almost inaccessible. If you also have ADHD,…
Depression relapse prevention is not about guaranteeing that you will never become depressed again. It is about recognizing your personal changes sooner, protecting treatments and…
Supporting a neurodivergent adult with depression is rarely about finding the perfect words. It is more often about noticing what has changed, reducing the effort…
You can have people around you and still feel profoundly alone. You can also spend a great deal of time by yourself without feeling lonely.…
ADHD, depression and bipolar disorder can all affect energy, concentration, sleep, motivation, emotional regulation and activity. From the outside, impulsive ADHD behaviour may resemble hypomania,…
You can feel exhausted and unable to begin anything while your mind continues scanning for what might go wrong. You can stop enjoying life yet…
You cannot start. Messages remain unanswered. Basic tasks require an unreasonable amount of effort. Your memory feels unreliable, decisions are exhausting, and the systems that…
Assessing depression in a neurodivergent adult can be complicated because depressive symptoms may overlap with ADHD traits, autistic characteristics, burnout, shutdown, sleep problems, and executive…
Suicidal thoughts can range from wishing not to wake up or wanting everything to stop to thinking about ending your life with current intent. Not…
Depression is more common among autistic adults and adults with ADHD than among adults without these conditions. That group-level difference is well established. Why it…
