Turning Toward ADHD

A piece on removing the persona and the shadow you can never quite pin down. It turns toward ADHD through a depth-psychological lens, treating it not only as a clinical category but as a particular way of relating to attention, identity, and the parts of the self that resist being fixed in place. Like every piece in the series it opens with crisis resources and holds the disclosure seam between lived and studied knowledge. It is the most recent of the completed Turning Toward pieces, and among the most personal in its handling, concerned with the gap between the self one performs and the one that keeps slipping loose.

The most recent of the completed Turning Toward pieces, it is also among the most personal, reading the condition through a depth-psychological lens rather than a purely clinical one. Its subject is the gap between the persona a person performs and the self that keeps slipping loose — the shadow, in Jung's sense, that attention can never quite pin down.

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