ADHD: Or, Why You Have 47 Open Tabs and Also Forgot to Eat Lunch
You know that feeling when you walk into a room with a clear purpose and immediately forget what that purpose was? Or when you start cleaning your kitchen and somehow end up reorganizing your bookshelf by color at 11pm? Yeah. Let's talk about ADHD.
ADHD is not a personality flaw. It's a whole different operating system.
ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) is a neurodevelopmental difference in how your brain manages attention, motivation, and executive functioning. It is not laziness, it is not a character defect, and it is definitely not something you can fix with a better planner (we've all tried the planner. The planner is now also lost).
Signs you might have ADHD, an incomplete and extremely relatable list:
You have started approximately 14 books and finished 2
Your phone has 6 timers set for things you've already forgotten you were timing
You've read the same paragraph 9 times and still don't know what it said
"I'll just do it real quick" has led you into 45-minute spirals more times than you can count
You are somehow always either 20 minutes early or 20 minutes late, with no in-between setting
Your brain treats every new interest like it's the most important thing in the world for exactly 3 weeks
You've cried in a Target parking lot because someone at checkout was mildly short with you
Why so many adults find out later in life
A lot of people (especially those who were "gifted kids" or generally high-achieving) don't get diagnosed until their 30s or 40s. Usually after decades of quietly wondering why everyone else seems to have some kind of internal operating manual that never got mailed to you.
What therapy actually does about it
Spoiler: it's not about becoming a Different Person who suddenly loves spreadsheets. ADHD therapy focuses on understanding how your specific brain works and building strategies that work with it, using approaches like CBT (for the self-criticism spiral), DBT (for the "why can't I just be normal" spiral), and mindfulness (for, well, all the spirals).
At Sonder Counseling, Ericka Mojica, LLPC specializes in neurodiversity-affirming ADHD therapy. She sees clients in-person in Troy or online anywhere in Michigan, and she promises not to judge you for the 47 tabs. She probably has some open too.
Book a free 15-minute consultation. It takes two minutes and no planner purchase required beforehand.
