Richard Harry Johnson
Integrative health, nervous system regulation, and the physical cost of ADHD
ADHD is still commonly framed as a problem of attention, motivation, or behaviour.
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For many adults, that explanation no longer fits.
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What sits underneath is often something more physical: a nervous system that has been under sustained load for years, sometimes decades. Repeated burnout. Chronic exhaustion. Sleep disruption. Inflammation. Food sensitivity. A body that no longer recovers in the way it once did.
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Insight is usually not the issue.
Capacity is.
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My work explores ADHD through an integrative, body-first lens, looking at how nervous system regulation, metabolic stability, immune load, and recovery shape how ADHD is actually lived day to day.
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This perspective becomes particularly relevant when therapy, coaching, or strategies have helped with understanding, but not with stability.
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A different starting point.
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Rather than asking how to do more, the question becomes: what is the system carrying, and what needs to be reduced before anything else can change?
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An integrative approach to ADHD begins with regulation, not optimisation. With creating physiological safety rather than pushing performance. When load is reduced, function often improves without being forced.
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This is not about fixing ADHD.
It is about supporting the body that lives with it.
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A quieter kind of work.
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The ADHD space is crowded with advice, tools, and noise. Much of it assumes that more information leads to better outcomes.
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Often, it does not.
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This space is intentionally quieter. It is a place for thoughtful writing and integrative reflection on ADHD, burnout, and nervous system health, grounded as much in physiology as in psychology.
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If this way of thinking resonates, you may wish to begin with the featured article below.
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When ADHD Is Not a Behavioural Problem
The overlooked physical cost of living in a constantly overloaded nervous system.