ADHD Collective Scotland

ADHD Collective Scotland ADHD Collective Scotland are an independent health care service registered by Health Improvement Scotland providing adult ADHD assessments

12/06/2026

There are two spaces left for tomorrow's Mindful Mornings Session 🌿

Book your space đź”— https://bookwhen.com/mindfulmornings

📆 Saturday, 6 June '26
⏰ 10:30am – 12pm BST
đź“Ť Green Tree Remedies, 4 Church Street, Alexandria, G83 0NP

Many ADHD women spend years overextending themselves, masking, people-pleasing, or pushing beyond their capacity — often leading to overwhelm and burnout.

This session will explore boundaries, nervous system regulation, rest, and recognising when we are moving beyond our capacity.

We’ll reflect on:
✨ recognising signs of overwhelm
✨ balancing energy and responsibilities
✨ reducing guilt around rest and support
✨ creating gentler boundaries
✨ and building routines that support regulation rather than burnout

This is a gentle, supportive session designed to help you reconnect with yourself more compassionately.

June’s session will also include a gentle short yoga practice with Rachel McBride from RaeWired to support grounding, regulation, movement, and reconnecting with the body in a supportive and accessible way.

This is a gentle, supportive session designed to help you reconnect with yourself more compassionately.

As always, participation is completely optional and people are very welcome to simply observe, sit comfortably, or take part in whatever way feels supportive for them.

This event is for women only.

12/06/2026

A common misunderstanding is that ADHD means someone “can’t pay attention”. The reality is more complicated.

The ADHD brain can often pay intense attention sometimes for hours especially when something is interesting, urgent, new, challenging, or highly rewarding. The difficulty is often with directing and regulating attention on demand.

Think of attention like a spotlight. For many people, the brain can move that spotlight where it’s needed with fewer barriers. In ADHD, the system that decides where the spotlight goes can work differently.

The brain constantly makes decisions based on:
🔹 importance
🔹 reward
🔹 interest
🔹 urgency
🔹 novelty
🔹 emotional relevance

These decisions involve networks in the brain including the prefrontal cortex (planning, inhibition, organising, switching tasks), the dopamine pathways (motivation, reward, reinforcement), and communication between brain regions that manage focus and behaviour.

In ADHD, regulation of these systems is affected particularly involving dopamine and noradrenaline signalling. This can make low-stimulation or delayed-reward tasks feel harder to engage with, even when the person genuinely wants to do them.

This is why someone with ADHD might:
âś… struggle to start a simple task
âś… lose track of time
âś… forget things they care about
✅ feel overwhelmed by “basic” routines
âś… become deeply absorbed in something they find stimulating (hyperfocus)

Hyperfocus isn’t “perfect attention”. It’s the brain locking onto a strong source of stimulation or reward and having difficulty shifting away.

06/06/2026

They only see the 8 hours.

They don’t see the preparation before it, or the recovery after it.

Many people with ADHD are told:

• “You seem fine.”
• “You’re doing well.”
• “You don’t look like you’re struggling.”

What others see is the performance.

What they don’t see is the planning, masking, self-regulation, sensory management, mental effort, and exhaustion that make that performance possible.

Functioning well doesn’t mean things are easy.

Being competent doesn’t mean there’s no cost.

For many people with ADHD, success isn’t about pushing through until burnout. It’s about finding ways to thrive that are sustainable.

The next time someone says, “But you’re doing so well,” remember:

Visible performance is only part of the story.

The effort behind it matters too.

28/05/2026

ADHD is not “trendy,” a fad, or something that’s simply over diagnosed.

Most people only see the surface of it not the mental exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, constant overthinking, burnout, or the struggle to manage everyday life in a world that isn’t built for ADHD minds.

When you truly understand what ADHD is and what it feels like to live with it, your perspective changes completely.

Medication can be life changing for some people, but it’s not the answer for everyone.

One of the most powerful tools you can have is self-awareness learning your patterns, understanding your needs, and working with yourself instead of constantly trying to force yourself to function like everyone else.

28/05/2026

Thank you so much for the incredible response to our ADHD Parent Introduction Workshops đź’›

Tomorrow's workshop (Wednesday 27th May) is now fully booked, and our session on Wednesday 3rd June is nearly half full.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, we’d encourage booking soon as spaces are limited.

Workshop dates:
👉 Wednesday 27th May – fully booked
👉 Wednesday 3rd June – limited spaces remaining

We’re also starting a waiting list for future dates as interest continues to grow.

Thank you as always for your support!

You can book your place here đź”— https://bookwhen.com/lomondadhdservices =ev-swpbp-20260429120000

28/05/2026

Hey Professionals!
Are you strugguling with the nuances of ADHD Women Diagnosis and Interventions?
We want to invite you for new SHARE event with our speaker! Dana Dzamic is a neurodiversity consulting, ADHD Coach and Founder of ADHD Insight Hub. She holds a Master’s Degree in Autism Studies (University of Kent, UK), and an ADHD Coaching Diploma. Her work focuses on bridging researche, lived experience and practical application to support both: the individuals with ADHD and the professionals who work with them.

Join us on Wednesday, 10 th June, 2026, at 8:00pm CET

Registration link - in coment down below

If You have any questions - feel free to contact SHARE group

28/05/2026

Do you live in the Shetland Islands? Their next support group meeting is next Monday! More details below... Ability Shetland

23/05/2026

ADHD doesn’t disappear when it’s ignored. Untreated ADHD can contribute to burnout, missed opportunities, relationship strain, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, depression, and daily life challenges. Awareness and support matter.

15/05/2026

Over the next few days I’m going to be working on the next few weeks schedule for social events!

This includes Lego sessions, quiet clubs and Friday night events all ran by us and ADHD support groups, craft clubs, perimenopause groups, endometriosis groups, PCOS support, school visits and scales and tails all ran by other people, just hosted by us!

What else would you like to see?

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