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Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

May 24, 2015

“ADHD Is Different for Women”

“Dr. Ellen Littman, author of Understanding Girls with ADHD, has studied high IQ adults and adolescents with the disorder for more than 25 years. She attributes the under-diagnosis of girls and women — it is estimated that there are around 4 million who are not diagnosed, or…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Jan 19, 2016

“The Profound Emptiness of ‘Resilience’”

“Deriving from the Latin for ‘‘to jump again,’’ ‘‘resilience’’ has sprung into new life as a catchword in international development and Silicon Valley and among parenting pundits and TED-heads. Hundreds of books have been published on the topic this year…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Nov 16, 2017

“Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure”

“We often take a militaristic, “tough” approach to resilience and grit. We imagine a Marine slogging through the mud, a boxer going one more round, or a football player picking himself up off the turf for one more play. We…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 2, 2017

“The new Netflix series “Atypical” portrays autistic men as sexist jerks”

“In real life, women, queer people, and people of color can be autistic. But as Matthew Rozsca writes at Salon, an autistic individual onscreen is “nearly always as a white, heterosexual male.” Often…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Nov 23, 2015

“The Silicon Valley Suicides”

“While reporting this story, I came to understand quite a lot about academic stress and adolescent misery, and about my own parenting, and about how urgent it is for parents and educators to question their own good intentions. But the link between teenage alienation and the…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Dec 17, 2017

“ADHD Tipping Points: Why people with ADHD suddenly seem to fall apart, and what you can do about it”

“In her coaching practice, Laurie met many people diagnosed as adults as late as middle age. Often, they had functioned well in school, at work, and in their…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Apr 20, 2017

“How ADHD Affects Adults”

“Adults with ADHD have a tricky path to navigate. Those now in their 20s diagnosed with the disorder will have grown up during the noughties when newspapers were splashed with pictures of kids snorting Ritalin (a drug often used to treat ADHD) at school. ‘ADHD is just a scapegoat…

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Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Dec 31, 2017

“Neoliberalism is creating loneliness. That’s what’s wrenching society apart”

“human beings, the ultrasocial mammals, whose brains are wired to respond to other people, are being peeled apart. Economic and technological change play a major role, but so does ideology. Though…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Mar 14, 2017

“Blind Positivity Sucks.”

“Positivity that calls for you to hide behind “good vibes” instead of facing up to the reality of your life is never going to be healthy. It will never support you or prop you up. All it can ever do is provide you with a sense of hope built up on a platform so fucking weak that it…

Jess Brooks in Totally Mental

Oct 14, 2017

“Who Gets To Be The “Good Schizophrenic”?”

“Living under the shadow of a new “code” bore no curative function, but it did imply that to be high-functioning would be difficult, and it warned me that to live beyond that code would be a tricky gambit. A therapist had already told me in my…

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