Is This Me or ADHD? #9 ~ Fear of being thrown off the planet

When you get an official looking envelope and immediately assume you're being deported and/or arrested...

I’ve called this post #9 in this new series because I used to have an entire Substack called Is This Me or ADHD?

But I closed it ages ago and don’t remember how many posts I’d published.

I’ve chosen #9 to start this new occasional series because it’s one of my favourite numbers. I’m setting part of my differently wired brain free as I share some of of my Is This Me or ADHD? moments.

I’ll also share some of the ways in which I’ve amped up my own self and Self care to better support myself through each of these moments and symptoms.

I hope it will remind you of self and Self care and other resources you already have as well increasing your own self compassion.

As I learn more about ADHD and RSD (Rejection Sensitivity Disorder), I wonder how much is me and how much is my differently wired brain

Earlier today, I picked up an official looking envelope.

Walking the few metres from the front door to the living room, I’d mentally and emotionally (and physiologically - I noticed myself gritting my teeth as well as holding my breath and feeling my heart racing) prepared myself to have to pack up the life I’ve built in my new home country and find somewhere else.

Maybe I could become a sea creature and make my home amongst the seaweed? Photo of seaweed in Belmullet, Co Mayo, Ireland, by Eve Menezes Cunningham 2024.