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What to look for, what to ask, and why you're allowed to have preferences. You've decided that you might like to try counselling. Perhaps you've been thinking about it for months. Maybe something has happened recently that's made you feel you could do with some support. Or perhaps you're not entirely sure why things feel so difficult, but you know you don't want to keep managing everything on your own. So you start looking for a therapist and suddenly there are hundreds of

The unexpected emotions, questions and changes that can follow an ADHD diagnosis later in life. You've finally got an answer. Perhaps you've spent years wondering why certain things seem to take so much more effort for you than other people. You've read about ADHD, recognised yourself in things other people have described. Completed questionnaires. Talked about your childhood, explained difficulties you've spent years trying to hide, compensate for or convince yourself were

I see a message come in. It’s from someone I like. Someone I genuinely smile when I see their name pop up and want to speak to. I read it and think: “I’ll reply properly in a minute.” Then somehow it’s three hours later, or tomorrow, or four days have passed and now the message feels enormous. I think about reply on many occasions composing the answer in my head. But actually opening the conversation and typing the reply? Nope, and the longer I leave it, the harder it beco