I actually find it a bit offensive to suggest that ADHD is anything but a psychiatric disorder. Many people will say: "Look, I have empathy for people who have mental health problems but I am not one of them! Don't put me in that category! After all, ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, therefore due to its biological origins it is not a mental disorder." This of course makes absolutely no sense and is woefully ignorant of what a psychiatric disorder is in the first pl

A question from a friend came to me the other day. The question was that of faith. A religious intellectual, he was struggling to explain the "why" of God to his 12 year old son. He used many sound and logical arguments and even scientific explanation although I am sure a well armed athiest could have debated all of his points. I have said it many times before. One of the great cognitive distortions of modern thinking is that of "intellectualization". Intellectualizati

Social media promised to connect us, but it is driving us apart. Instead of bringing people closer, platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and TikTok are making us less socially engaged, more inattentive, and mentally exhausted. These tech giants have turned human attention into a commodity, profiting from endless scrolling and AI-generated content. If this trend continues, society will face a bleak future where meaningful work and genuine human connection vanish. This pos