ADDitude's most-read articles in 2025 addressed ADHD's links to inflammation, boredom, sleep struggles, and more

ADHD's Inflammation Connection & more top reads from 2025 View this email in your browser Your Favorite Articles This Year 1. ADHD’s Curious Connections to Inflammation A growing body of research is shedding light on links between ADHD, chronic inflammation, and dysautonomia (a disordered autonomic nervous system, which controls heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, body temperature, and more). Learn more about these brain-body connections » 2. Bendy Bodies, ADHD Brains Nearly 80% of female adults with ADHD are hypermobile, and individuals with ADHD are four times more likely to be hypermobile than their neurotypical peers. | Keep reading » 3. ADHD’s Vanishing (and Reappearing) Act ADHD symptoms seem to disappear, return, worsen, and improve over the lifetime for many people. Here's what may contribute to these fluctuations. 4. ADHD in Preschoolers: Symptoms & Interventions Preschoolers are rambunctious, curious, and unpredictably attentive. So how do you differentiate typical developmental behaviors from possible signs of ADHD? 5. 10 Steps to Unmasking Your ADHD Women with ADHD often take care of our children at our own expense. What if we focused that same level of care and creative problem-solving on ourselves? Hurry! Offer ends December 31, 2025 6. Why Decluttering Is So Hard for ADHD Brains Clutter is delayed decision-making. You don't know what to do with something, so you set it down to deal with later. Now multiply that by hundreds... 7. When Your Child's Only Response Is “No!” Children with Pathological Demand Avoidance have reactive nervous systems that prime them to interpret requests and expectations as demands or threats. 8. Perimenopause + ADHD How can women with ADHD receive the best climacteric care when so few clinicians understand how hormones impact ADHD? Start by sharing this vital information » 9. The Disorder That Never Sleeps With ADHD, we tend to think of challenges that appear from dawn to dusk, like impulsivity. But many other challenges emerge at (and after) bedtime. 10. Screens Are Stealing Your Attention. Take It Back. The average American checks their phone 205 times each day. What this is doing to our brains, and how you can dial back your digital consumption »