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Plain-language explainers with evidence classifications, sources, and a medical boundary. Nothing here is a recommendation to start, stop or change a medicine.
ADHD Medication
9 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
ADHD medication, in plain language
What stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD medicines are for, what they commonly change, and where serious psychiatric effects sit in the evidence — uncommon, documented, not evenly distributed.
8 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
Tracking ADHD medication without turning your life into a spreadsheet
Memory is what most appointments get. A dated log is better. Guidelines still expect clinical monitoring that an app cannot do.
5 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
Stopping ADHD stimulants is not the same story
Some stimulant regimens are commonly ceased differently from antidepressants. That is not a rule that ADHD medicine can always be stopped tomorrow. Non-stimulants differ again.
Antidepressants
Taking Both
Withdrawal and Discontinuation
The Whole Picture
7 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
The whole picture
Human beings rarely arrive one diagnosis at a time. Healthcare systems often do. Overlap is not a contest between labels.
7 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
ADHD, in examples — not in a quiz
What inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity look like in a life. A pattern, across settings, with a childhood trail. Not a test you can pass on a bad week.
6 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
One answer can be right and still incomplete
Missed, misidentified, incomplete, sequential, overshadowed. A later diagnosis does not automatically invalidate an earlier one.
7 min · reviewed 2 September 2026
Recognition is growing faster than the systems built to assess it
Australian waits, costs and workforce constraints, dated. Demand is not prevalence. Old inquiry figures are not current measurements.
ADHD, Autism and Depression
7 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
ADHD, autism, AuDHD and depression
A person can have more than one of these. A later recognition does not automatically mean an earlier diagnosis was a mistake. Incomplete is not the same as wrong.
8 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
AuDHD is a word. It is not a third diagnosis.
Community language for autism and ADHD together. Not a DSM code. Dual diagnosis has been allowed since 2013. Each condition still has to be assessed on its own terms.
Sleep
Interoception
6 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
Interoception: feeling the instrument you live in
Interoception is the sensing of signals from inside the body. ADHD is associated, in some studies, with differences here. Whether stimulant treatment improves that sensing remains an open question.
6 min · reviewed 1 September 2026
Quieting the radio
A way of thinking about signal, noise and attention. Not a complete model of ADHD. The step from quieter noise to louder bodily signal is labelled honestly as a hypothesis.