ADHD Scotland

29/05/2026

29/05/2026

✨ FREE Webinar for Parents & Carers ✨
After the Bell: Understanding After‑School Dysregulation
📅 June 2nd at 4pm

Do you ever notice your child holding it together all day at school, only to come home overwhelmed, emotional, or completely shut down? You’re not alone — and there’s a name for this experience: after‑school restraint collapse.

Join The Exchange and NeuroPathways Clinic for a free online session exploring why this happens, what’s going on beneath the surface, and how you can support your child through those tricky after‑school moments.

You’ll hear from:
👩‍🏫 Amy O’Hare – Training Manager, Counsellor & Sleep Coach
👩‍⚕️ Julia Middlecote – Assistant Psychologist & Counsellor

Together, they’ll share practical strategies to help your family navigate emotional, social, and sensory overload after the school day ends.

💛 Open to all parents and carers
🖥️ Register here: https://www.exchange-counselling.com/community-family-support

05/05/2026

Why hygiene can be hard 💧

For many neurodivergent people, personal care isn’t “simple” or automatic.

Sensory sensitivities, executive functioning differences and anxiety can make everyday hygiene tasks overwhelming.

This blog explains why hygiene can be difficult and why understanding the barriers matters more than pressure or judgement 💚

🔗 Read the full blog here: www.nest.scot/blog

13/04/2026

We are sharing this on behalf of a doctorate psychology student who is advertising his research thesis.

If you or anyone you know may be interested in taking part in the study please email Mark Bale :[email protected].

02/04/2026

ADHD in adults doesn’t always look obvious.

It looks like:
– Overthinking
– Procrastination
– Burnout
– Emotional overwhelm
– “Why is this so hard for me?”

There is an explanation — and support.

17/03/2026

Is your child recently diagnosed with ADHD?
Or are you wondering if they might have ADHD?

Parenting a child with ADHD can be confusing, exhausting, and sometimes overwhelming. The good news is that understanding how ADHD works can make a huge difference.

Join us for a small, in-person ADHD Parenting Workshop designed to help parents better understand their child and learn practical strategies that actually work.

📅 Saturday 28 March
⏰ 11:00am – 1:00pm
📍 West Regent Street

Led by Dr Emma Field, this intimate talk and workshop will help parents:

• Understand how ADHD affects behaviour, emotions and motivation
• Learn practical strategies to support your child or teenager
• Reduce conflict and build more positive relationships at home
• Ask questions in a supportive, small-group setting

✨ Limited spaces available

Grab the last remaining tickets here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adhd-workshop-for-parents-of-childrenteenagers-with-adhd-tickets-1979391337775?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/03/2026

Time management can and often is a big problem for the ADHD brain...

13/02/2026

Why are so many women being diagnosed with ADHD later in life?

Because many never fit the stereotype.

They weren’t the “naughty” or disruptive child.

They were the ones who:

• Daydreamed quietly
• Worked twice as hard to keep up
• Were called “too sensitive”
• Felt overwhelmed but hid it
• Lived in cycles of burnout and self-blame
ADHD in girls and women is often internalised.

It can look like perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional intensity, anxiety, and chronic overwhelm.

Many women are diagnosed in their 30s, 40s or 50s, often after a child is diagnosed or when life becomes too complex to keep masking.

Late diagnosis doesn’t mean mild.

It often means:
High effort.
High masking.
High exhaustion.
If this resonates, you’re not lazy or failing at life.

You may simply have been coping with something that wasn’t recognised.

03/02/2026

If this feels uncomfortably familiar, you’re not alone.

Many women with ADHD aren’t “bad at coping” — they’re over-coping.
Holding everything together.
Managing everyone else’s needs.
Masking so well that no one thinks to check in.

Being chronically overwhelmed isn’t a personal failure.
It’s what happens when your nervous system is running the household, the diary, the emotions, and the expectations — with very little support.

If this post resonates, let it be a reminder:
You’re not lazy.
You’re not broken.
And you’re not imagining how hard this feels.

💬 Does any part of this hit home for you?

26/01/2026

If I cared more, I’d just do it.”
This is one of the most common — and most harmful — ADHD myths.

ADHD is not laziness.
It’s a neurodevelopmental condition that affects executive functions — the brain systems responsible for:
• starting tasks
• sustaining effort
• regulating attention
• managing time and priorities

People with ADHD often want to do the thing just as much as anyone else.
The difficulty is activating and regulating attention, especially when tasks feel boring, overwhelming, or emotionally loaded.

That’s why:

urgent tasks get done
interesting tasks get hyperfocused on
“important but boring” tasks get stuck

Understanding this matters.
It reduces shame — and changes how support actually works.

Save if you work with or support someone with ADHD
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