About



I created this blog to share the things I’m learning about ADHD with other Adult ADHDers like myself. I want to help you understand your brain and how to work with it properly so you can have better control over your mind and more stability in your life. I want this blog to serve as a guide for you on your journey.

I’ll be writing a lot about Adult ADHD, but I’ll also write about things like Bipolar, Anxiety and Depression. I’m diagnosed with both Bipolar and ADHD, so I have plenty to say about both disorders. And you’ll hear a lot about Anxiety and Depression because they often accompany ADHD.

People with ADHD live with a lot of the same symptoms and experiences as many other mental disorders, and I plan to cover as much as possible. I look forward to helping you figure yourself out as I figure my own self out!

I want to help you…

  • Learn
    Learn about your brain and how to work with it rather than against it. Separate Myth from Fact, and Remove harmful Stigma and Assumptions.
  • Optimize
    Discover what tools work best for you. Use them to Enhance your Quality of Life and feel less Overwhelmed.
  • Grow
    Accept and Appreciate the things about yourself you cannot change. Find the things you can change, and Grow into the person you want to be. Strive not to be better than those around you, but to always be better than who you were yesterday. 

My Story in a Nutshell

I’m an Adult diagnosed with both ADHD & Bipolar. 
I was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age, spent many years medicated and many years unmedicated. It took a lot of time and research for me to come to the realization that my ADHD was the reason behind nearly everything I struggled with in my life, as well as most of the things I loved about myself.

I was diagnosed with Bipolar as a teenager, and have struggled to accept that diagnosis until very recently. After a several months long bout of depression, I feel I’m finally ready to accept that I do in fact have Bipolar disorder. 

The inspiration for starting this blog arose from a dark time in my life.
I lost my father to cancer, and the grief that followed became a sort of wake up call for me, causing me to take an honest look at myself and the state of my life. During that time I felt thoroughly hopeless and spent most of every day alone with my thoughts, trying desperately to find some sort of explanation or solution to the state I was in. I’d spent my life battling with my mental health, many times refusing to accept that my brain was different, believing I simply wasn’t trying hard enough or needed to “suck it up” like everyone else. When my dad died, it was as if all those years of struggle culminated into some horrific symphony of turmoil.
The term “Dark night of the Soul” is fitting.
I like how Eckhart Tolle describes the Dark night of the Soul:
It is a term used to describe what one could call a collapse of a perceived meaning in life…an eruption into your life of a deep sense of meaninglessness. The inner state in some cases is very close to what is conventionally called depression. Nothing makes sense anymore, there’s no purpose to anything.
It’s common for this experience to be triggered by an external event (like losing a parent). Despite how impossible it felt, I slowly but surely found my way out of the darkness thanks to a lot of research and soul searching.
(You can read my full story here)
Behind The Name

I like to think that you’re comparable to a seed that’s been planted and is in the process of growing into a beautiful flower. The struggles you face in your life, with your ADHD and whatever else you face, are the darkness of the soil you’ve been planted in. You need that darkness just like a seed needs the soil to become all that it’s meant to become.