It's Not A Bloody Trend
Kat Brown
- 01 februari 2024
- 9781405559478
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Nobody should spend their life feeling defective. Everyone deserves to have a user manual to their brain - welcome to yours.
In this enlightening and definitive layman's guide to ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), Kat Brown cheerfully smashes the stereotypes with scientific evidence, historical context, and practical support for ADHD minds across areas that can cause problems, from finances and work to self-medicating, relationships, hormones and self-esteem.
It's Not A Bloody Trend is for anyone wondering if what's always been 'wrong' with them might just be undiagnosed ADHD.
'Finally, the ADHD book we've been waiting for. Funny, compassionate and deeply useful'
Rebecca Schiller, author of Earthed
'This book serves as vindication for all those who've encountered eye-rolls from friends and family'
Laura Schofield, founder of Otto + Ivy
Kat Brown is a freelance journalist and commentator whose national work on ADHD, mental health stigma, and other social and arts commentary has appeared in the Telegraph, Grazia, Woman's Hour and The Times.
'A sledgehammer of a book putting to bed all the cynicism and misinformation around a condition that affects so many hidden, brilliant people' Professor Tanya Byron
'Laugh out loud funny and deeply validating - every person who thinks ADHD isn't real should read this book' Leanne Maskell, author of ADHD: An A to Z
Nobody should spend their life feeling defective. Everyone deserves to have a user manual to their brain - welcome to yours.
Once associated more with hyper boys than adults, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is now recognised as a condition in need of a rebrand which affects people of all genders and ages in a multitude of ways.
In this enlightening and definitive layman's guide, Kat Brown cheerfully smashes the stereotypes with scientific evidence, historical context, and practical support for ADHD minds across areas that can cause problems, from finances and work to self-medicating, relationships, hormones and self-esteem.
Based on Kat's personal experience and extensive interviews with ADHDers and world-leading clinical experts, It's Not A Bloody Trend is for anyone wondering if what's always been 'wrong' with them might just be undiagnosed ADHD.