The Frustrating ADHD Overwhelm Often Confused For 'Laziness'

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Former Great British Bake-Off host Sue Perkins has opened up about her experience of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and how it left her feeling “paralysed” during the pandemic. Speaking on Elizabeth Day’s podcast, How To Fail , Sue described how her brain would “defeat itself” because “every single day it was, ‘Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this,’ and it changed. [...] Layer upon layer of confusing, expansive, distorted thinking.” She continued: “You don’t have any control over it, and I wanted to write, and I couldn’t. My brain was atomised during lockdown. I can…

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