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…
🎙 From the classroom: The day I stood in front of my first class of twelve adults in France, I was — in English — 'nervous'. But nervous doesn't capture it. I was terrified, excited,…
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,…
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.
Diagnosed with ADHD in my late thirties, I learnt that attention is not binary. What that taught me about structure, openness and hyperfocus in the English classroom, and what the research says.
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