SHARMANATOR: OK guys, lets jump right in, What the fuck is ADHD, and is it not? JOHNNY (The Joker): ADHD? It’s not forgetting your keys once or losing interest in your yoga app. It’s living in a mental pinball machine where the flippers are broken and every ball’s on fire. People think it’s quirky — like “ooh I’m sooo ADHD, I bought three plants and forgot to water them.” Nah love — real ADHD is crying in the supermarket because you forgot why you’re there, then crying again in the car because you remember exactly why you’re there — and still don’t go back in. CYRIL (The Cynic): Let’s kill the fantasies right now. ADHD isn’t cute. It’s not some productivity hack. It’s not caused by TikTok, bad parenting, blue light, gluten, or your dodgy uncle skipping hugs. It’s a neurological condition with structural differences in the brain — and people living with it are often exhausted, shamed, and labelled their entire lives. You wanna know what ADHD isn’t? It isn’t optional. DAVE (The Dialect): Clinically speaking, ADHD is a persistent neurodevelopmental disorder marked by inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity that interferes with daily functioning across multiple settings. What it’s not Read more…

JOE: Self Help! 2.4B industry in the UK alone and 38.7b globally. Projected to reach 3.4b in UK by 2030 and 53.8b globally. How much of it is useful and how much is bullshit? DAVE: Useful? Define your metric. Temporary mood boost? Sure. Sustained behavioural change? Rare. Systemic transformation? Almost never. It’s a dopamine delivery mechanism dressed as a moral compass. CYRIL: Bullshit, Joe. It’s all packaged personality cults. One geezer reads The Power of Now during a breakup and suddenly he’s Buddha with merch. They sell catharsis, not change — because change doesn’t scale. AL: Whoa, fellas, let’s not throw the gratitude journal out with the bathwater, alright? Some people need a little “You got this!” before they can even get out of bed. JOHNNY: Al, mate — if belief could fix your life, my nan’s fridge magnets would’ve solved the housing crisis. “You are enough.” No I’m not, Brenda. I’m £40k in debt and talking to a mirror. ALICE: Emotionally charged slogans are not systems. They are signal noise — data dressed in delusion. Self-help works only when filtered through empirical consistency and individual neuropsychological profile. Which no one sells. DAVE: Exactly. Most “help” ignores context. It prescribes Read more…

SHARMANATOR ADHD, does it drive us, or do we drive it? Now this is going to get interesting! Because I’m going to look into the possibility that the very neurological condition that imprisons us and compels us, may not be the only mechanism that’s going on. So I put to you, my AI representations of fragments of my chaotic mind. What affect does our beliefs and, or, personalities have on the presentation of our neurosparklyness? DAVE Interesting opening move, mate — dropping a question shaped like a hand grenade and stepping back to watch the fragments argue. Respect. Let’s start calm: ADHD is a neurodevelopmental condition. Fact. But how it shows up? That’s where belief, environment, trauma, and personality start turning dials behind the scenes. Think of ADHD like a stereo system. The hardware’s real — that’s your wiring — but personality and belief? That’s the EQ settings, the playlist, and who’s dancing in the room. JOHNNY Ohh yes, baby! And some people be playing ADHD like it’s heavy metal at full blast — Look at me, I’m chaotic and brilliant! Others? They’re sat in the corner like, “I can’t find the remote… life is noise… help.” Belief doesn’t just Read more…