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Is social anxiety a big part of your ADHD?

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

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How Mindfulness Can Help You Deal With Anxiety

Anxiety is really just your thoughts, which then have an impact on your body. So when you start to recognise those thought patterns popping up, if you're able to catch it and stop it from spiralling out of control that's what CBT effectively is. We think around 70,000 thoughts a day, and we're on autopilot 46.9% of the time - our brain is designed in a way to protect us from danger. Our fear centre amygdala slightly enlarged so something that isn't even threatening will be perceived as a threat. And then it will kick off all the systems and the bodies start you sweating, the blushing or the rest of it. But if we know

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