Most people with ADHD know about the focus problems. Most people with anxiety know about the racing mind at night. What almost nobody has been told is that these two things are not separate problems running in parallel - they are the same problem, and sleep is the third element that ties them together.
When the ADHD brain cannot regulate its arousal, it produces anxiety. The anxiety elevates cortisol through the night, destroying the REM sleep that would have quieted both. The missing REM makes the ADHD worse the next day, and the anxiety louder, and the sleep harder to reach. The loop runs for years while the person treats three symptoms with three specialists and wonders why nothing fully works.
Grounded in neuroscience and sleep research, and told through the experiences of two people navigating the overlap from the inside, this audiobook draws the picture that most clinicians never draw - the one that shows ADHD, anxiety, and sleep as a single system, with a single point of entry, and a direction of travel that can be reversed.
