CHRIS WOODS
Notes on attention, grief, medicine, and life
Personal essays about living through both the difficult and easier times.
Written for my own benefit, published in the hope that they may interest or benefit someone else one day
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ADHD and the unseen mind
Attention, memory, diagnosis and the effort hidden beneath visible achievement.
Grief and continuing bonds
Love after death, loyalty, memory and allowing a future to grow without erasing the past.
Ways of understanding and healing
Psychotherapy, medication, mindfulness and the languages used to explain experience.
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When Forgetting Looks Like Not Caring
How ADHD can disrupt the path from caring to remembering—and why explanation, hurt and responsibility all need to be held together.
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Are we diagnosing too much ADHD?
ADHD can be under-recognised nationally and overdiagnosed in particular people or settings. The evidence supports concern about both errors, but not a claim that…
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ADHD medication: benefit, harm and choice
Stimulants can substantially reduce ADHD symptoms. They can also suppress appetite, disturb sleep, raise pulse and blood pressure, and make some people feel unlike…