The Journal

Writing from the series

Short, honest pieces on the things The Steady Series is about, for the parents who love hardest and struggle most.

15 June 2026

ADHD Shared Care Agreements, Explained

A Shared Care Agreement lets your NHS GP take over ADHD medication prescribing at NHS cost after a specialist starts it. But not every GP accepts them, here's what to know.

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15 June 2026

What Happens in an Adult ADHD Assessment?

An adult ADHD assessment is a structured clinical interview about your symptoms across childhood and now, usually 1–3 hours. Here's exactly what to expect, and how to prepare.

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15 June 2026

How Long Is the NHS ADHD Waiting List? (2026)

NHS adult ADHD waits now run from 1 to 8+ years depending on where you live, with some lists closed entirely. Here's the real picture, and the faster legal route.

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15 June 2026

ADHD Right to Choose, Explained (England, 2026)

Right to Choose lets you skip multi-year NHS ADHD waits by choosing an NHS-contracted provider, free, and usually within months. Here's exactly how it works.

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15 June 2026

Time Blindness: The ADHD Time Problem (and What Helps)

Time blindness is the ADHD difficulty with sensing and managing time, why you're late despite trying, lose hours without noticing, and can't feel a deadline until it's here. Plus what actually helps.

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15 June 2026

ADHD Burnout: Signs, Causes, and How to Recover

ADHD burnout is the crash that comes from masking and over-functioning for too long. Here's how to recognise it, why it happens, and what actually helps you recover.

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15 June 2026

ADHD and Emotional Dysregulation: Why Feelings Hit Harder

Emotional dysregulation is a core part of ADHD that the textbooks underplay, feelings that arrive bigger, faster, and harder to steer. Why it happens, and what genuinely helps.

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15 June 2026

ADHD Medication for Adults, Explained

Adult ADHD medication falls into two groups, stimulants and non-stimulants. Here's how each works, what to expect, and the honest answers to the questions people actually ask.

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31 May 2026

What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder? A Plain-English Explanation

No single thing causes BPD. Twin studies put its heritability at 42% to 69%, childhood adversity is strongly associated with it but is neither necessary nor sufficient, and the leading theory says the two interact. What the research actually shows, and what it does not.

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31 May 2026

How to Get an ADHD Diagnosis as an Adult in the UK

Adult ADHD diagnosis in the UK, your three routes (NHS, Right to Choose, private), how long they take, what they cost, and what happens after.

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31 May 2026

PTSD vs Complex PTSD: What's Actually Different?

Complex PTSD is all of PTSD plus three more problems: severe difficulty regulating emotion, a deep sense of being worthless or defeated, and trouble staying close to people. It is an ICD-11 diagnosis (6B41), not a DSM-5 one, and it usually follows prolonged trauma that was hard or impossible to escape.

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31 May 2026

BPD vs Bipolar Disorder: The 5 Real Differences

Bipolar mood episodes last at least 4 days (hypomania) or 7 days (mania); BPD mood shifts are brief and usually set off by something between people. About one in five people with one condition also has the other, and the treatments are different.

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