Dr. Alex George

With ADHD, you can really therefore struggle with uncertainty.

And I think that's something a lot of people would agree with.

For example, you know, it might be someone saying, oh, can we have a chat tomorrow quickly before work or at the start of work?

You don't know what that's going to be about.

So tying the emotional side of reaction sensitivity plus uncertainty is chaos.

And you know, oh my God.

And so how do you deal with uncertainty?

I think a lot of the time, because actually what uncertainty does is drive anxiety, it's actually being able to learn to build a tolerance of uncertainty.

So it's beginning to practice sitting with an emotion saying, right, I feel a bit anxious because boss wants to have a chat in the morning.

I don't know what's going to happen.

It could be really positive.

It could be a negative thing or it could be absolutely neutral.

And right now I could spiral into it, or I could sit and accept the fact that there is a bit of discomfort.

And rather than sit with this and now ruminate for hours and panic, I'm going to instead gently move my attention to the present.

Right now, what's more important is drinking a cup of tea I'm having, or spending time with the kids, or perhaps I'm going to go for a run, or maybe I'm going to go and do something that I usually enjoy.

I'm trying to take the attention off that conversation tomorrow onto something else.

Now, of course, someone's going to say, yeah, that's very well, but I'm still going to think about it.

Yeah, that's fine.

It's about saying, hey, thanks so much.

I appreciate, brain.