ADHD read listen watch list
How to ADHD YouTube Channel by Jessica McCabe
So many videos on so many aspects of ADHD, well researched, well presented and really helpful, balanced and pretty fun.
Online magazine with a lot of good articles about neurodiversity in general.
Noelle Faulkner - "lost girls" article by ADHD diagnosed journalist
Dr Hallowell – US neuroscientist and ADHD authority (he has it himself)Particularly good when you need a boost about it – his line: ‘It’s a GOOD diagnosis to receive’ Has written a few books, latest is ADHD 2.0, really useful and manageable!
Sari Solden - specialist in ADHD in women – this book is excellent to go through the whole process, including necessary grieving for what wasn’t!
The Radical Guide for Women with Attention Deficit Disorder
http://adhd-alien.com The daily struggles of ADHD in comic form
Not neurodivergence focussed but fantastically helpful resources:
Bessel Van Der Kolk - The Body Keeps The Score
How mental health transformed drastically over the past 40 years, but went too far in pathologising everything. Now we expect a diagnosis and a corresponding pill. Actually, much of our emotions and actions are ruled by our unconscious, and even talking therapy can only take you that far when dealing with trauma. Your body records how you feel. And expresses it in lots of ways, from chronic pain to nervous system disregulation. If you are not getting there with making sense of what happened in your life through talking, it’s time to take it to the next stage.
Watch Bessel explaining how the body keeps the score on trauma on YouTube
Ellen Langer - The Mindful Body
Coined the mother of mindfulness, Ellen Langer has studied the influence of being mindful or mindless on how we feel, and our health. It’s scientific, and it’s staggering. Want to heal yourself? Mind what kind of self talk you indulge in.
Philippa Perry - How To Stay Sane
Short book that you can l consume in a couple of hours, 4 main areas to look at that make a big difference to your mental health. Lots of practical exercises, especially the genogram. Like a family tree but for personality traits. Very revealing.
Sarah Knight - The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*CK
Bought this as a joke, devoured it and then got copies for everyone. A loose spoof of Mary Kondo Joy of Tidying, it tackles a seriously important subject for adhd people pleasers: how we spend our time saying yes to too much, over committing and stretching ourselves far too thin. I think it’s brilliant.
James Nestor - Breath
The main challenge of getting on top of ADHD dysregulation is getting yourself to a calmer place. Breathing is so often talked about, but rarely properly understood. We breathe 25000 a day, and that has a massive impact on how we feel. Even a few minutes a day can help you make some very impressive fast changes to your lifestyle.
Yoga With Adriene
https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene
I won’t lie, I’m a fan girl. ADHDers tend to live in their heads and struggle to just ‘be’ in our body. Equally, meditating without moving can feel like torture. So think of this as a way to do a form of meditation where you get to concentrate on moves, without crazy hard stretches, accessible to all and FREE. Best to have some yoga experience but not essential.
