Personal writing on neurodiversity, diagnosis, mental wellness, and living honestly.
Four simple daily anchors that hold on your worst days: a fixed wake time; meds, water and light; one real meal; one line written. A teacher’s ADHD and bipolar routine, checked against NHS, NIGMS and…
There is a kind of kite that flies well and goes nowhere. It climbs on any wind. It catches light. It is admired from below. And it has no string, so it cannot be steered,…
I am going to save you some time. Most "productivity tool" roundups are written by people with executive function who are trying to optimize. This one is written by someone with ADHD and bipolar disorder…
My parents loved me, and they also hurt me. What generational trauma means to me, what the research on it does and does not show, and four concrete things I do so that it stops…
For most of my life I treated my languages as noise and proof of distraction. Undiagnosed ADHD turned my strengths into accusations; this is how I learnt to name them correctly.
At some point during my dispute with a language teacher training institution, I stopped trying to win and started trying to document.
Every productivity system I tried made me worse. What bipolar disorder taught me about riding the high, the crash that follows, and why I now protect the rhythm before the output.
I sailed for twenty years without knowing my compass was broken. On a childhood spent holding a family together, a late diagnosis in La Réunion, and why a navigator would call that an instrument check,…
Complex PTSD is not the same as PTSD. What the diagnosis means, what hypervigilance looked like inside my career, why starting over in La Réunion and teaching mattered, and why resilience, for me, has not…
Bipolar I is not about mood swings in the colloquial sense; it is about magnitude. A teacher’s first-hand account of what professional stability looks like, checked against NHS, NIMH, NICE and WHO guidance.
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