adhd

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Opinions in Dialogue: Living with chronic mental illnesses

Saije Rusimovici and Isabella Urbani July 5, 2023

Mental illness can tear you down. There’s moments when you wonder where the vision of you who wasn’t so impacted by your mind is. At first, mental illness feels manageable. Like it was just a minor character who needed to make an appearance every once and a while to remind people they’re still here. Eventually, it becomes bigger. Mental illness can make you start feeling like the guest. Not every person with a mental illness feels this way. But oftentimes, it’s characterized as such or as being make-believe. This is a no-holds back conversation about living with mental illness from…

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Autism and ADHD aren’t just “trends”

Olivia Visser February 28, 2023

If you’re a social media user, you’ve likely noticed a rise in posts about autism and ADHD on your timeline. Neurodivergence — the state of having a different brain from those without mental conditions — has been a hot topic…

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Growing up unaware of my autistic identity

Olivia Visser July 18, 2022

The concept of neurodiversity was not widely discussed when I was growing up. People were either normal or they were weird. There was no nuance to this conversation, nor any way to approach our differences without creating an “us vs.…

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The challenges of studying as a student with ADHD

Nercya Kalino July 15, 2022

We’ve all seen the lists of study tips that advocate for strict schedules and the Pomodoro Technique, but most of these tips are designed for neurotypical brains, meaning they don’t work for everyone. The Peak spoke to Adelina Streletskaya to…

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Don’t dismiss ADHD as an excuse to get drugs

Eva Zhu October 31, 2018

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a disorder that causes difficulty in brain function and development. Two common symptoms are hyperactive-impulsive thought and difficulty maintaining attention — symptoms with which I am all too familiar. I could be listening to…

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