If you’ve been living with anxiety and ADHD, you already know what it feels like:
🌀 Constant overthinking
🔥 A nervous system that won’t shut off
⚠️ Panic over small things that feel huge
📉 Wild swings between “I can do everything” and “I can’t do anything”
But here’s the truth that hardly anyone—not even most therapists—talks about:
💡 Your anxiety isn’t a separate issue from your ADHD.
🔥 It’s your ADHD brain trying to survive in a world that wasn’t built for it.
And once you truly understand that, everything changes.
Anxiety Isn’t Random—It’s a Response to Repeated Failure, Fear, and Overwhelm
If you’ve got ADHD, you’ve spent years, maybe decades, being told:
- “You’re too much.”
- “You’re not trying hard enough.”
- “Why can’t you just focus?”
- “Why are you so lazy?”
- “Why are you always so emotional?”
So what happens?
You start overcompensating.
You overthink everything.
You become hyper-aware of how people might perceive you.
You scan for rejection, criticism, or danger before it happens.
That creates something called Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, or RSD for short.
That’s not “just anxiety.”
That’s your brain saying:
“I’ve been here before. I know what it’s like to mess up, to be judged, to fall behind. I’m going to prevent that from happening again—at all costs.”
RSD is not irrational. It’s protective.
It’s not separate. It’s woven into how your brain learned to function.
So the Real Problem Isn’t Just the Anxiety… It’s the Shame Underneath It
You’ve built your entire adult life around avoiding more criticism, failure, and rejection.
You might become a people pleaser, a social chameleon or a perfectionist and you are plagued with that imposter syndrome.
And that pressure? That constant push to keep it all together?
That’s where your anxiety lives.
That’s why you can’t “breathe through it.”
That’s why logic doesn’t help.
That’s why therapy sometimes leaves you aware of your pain but still stuck in it.
Because the root isn’t just anxiety.
It’s the lived experience of constantly feeling “not enough.”
Here’s the Aha Moment: You’re Not Broken. You’re Exhausted.
You’ve spent your entire life managing systems, feelings, and failures that most people don’t even notice.
And your anxiety?
It’s not a flaw.
It’s a symptom of trying to survive in a world that punishes your natural wiring.
So of course you’re anxious.
Of course you overthink.
Of course you feel like you’re on the verge of burnout all the time.
You’re not weak. You’re adaptive.
But adaptation isn’t the same as healing.
So What Needs to Happen?
You don’t need another planner.
You don’t need to “just remove the distractions”
You don’t need another app that promises to “organize your brain.”
You need a way to unhook from the fear and shame that got wired into your nervous system.
You need to create safety—not in your schedule, but in your body.
Some people say we shouldn’t put on more labels. I get it, but using the label ADHD allows us to get rid of all the labels that were put on us before, that we are lazy, unreliable, too much, distracted, stupid, naughty, disorganised, etc…
You need to let go of that programming that makes you believe again, that you are faulty or broken.
🔥 That’s what I do.
🔥 That’s what hypnotherapy makes possible.
When your brain finally understands that you are safe, accepted, and capable, not just intellectually but deep down,
you stop spiraling.
You stop masking.
You stop running.
And you start living, calmer, clearer, and more confident.
This Isn’t About Managing Symptoms. It’s about letting go of all the Negativity that has been piled on top of you.
Give me a shout to discuss how I can best help you with this.
Because the moment you stop fighting your brain, and start working with it is the moment everything begins to change. 💡🔥
