Mental Wiring

Introduction and Background Anyone that has read my previous pieces in this blog account will notice that there has been concentration on my background to which I haven't yet fully published, and it was something I wanted to do before fully concentrating on the ADHD side of things, to give full context.  There have been events in my life over the past month or so that need telling from both a work perspective and a mental health perspective that have their origins from two years ago.  This is a hill I am prepared to die on should it be required.  As things stand, I can only make progress from a position of nothing. While it is fair to say that I have suffered mentally all my life and was largely ignored or 'soldiered through' until my first suicide attempt in the army in 1998 and again through to my second suicide attempt in 2007 where there was some address by mental health services in Liverpool.  Since moving to Ireland in 2008, I have been in and out of mental hea...

"Ignorance is bliss" Never has a ubiquitous phrase been so appropriate.  I suppose I wanted to start with this phrase because in a sense feel it is a good starting point for all my posts.  Pre-diagnosis of my ADHD in October 2025 on a consultation with one of my GPs before my first appointment in this current spell with community mental health services, there was further realisation I might have had the condition.  Whilst I had been carrying out my own research into ADHD, one thing had been slightly overlooked by myself, but was reiterated during that consultation: research further into diet. In fairness I had come away thinking that this was a one-size fits all comment that would come from any health professional for most (for want of a better word) ailments requiring regular medications, but also how it might apply to a lifelong neurological disorder?  It doesn't take too much delving to see how much it does play importance, and further delving you can see how big ...

 A little about me and my reasoning for the blog: I'm Ian, currently a 51 year old man - if this around long enough, or even myself - originally from Bootle/Liverpool, and have been living in Ireland for almost 18 years.  My main core interests are sport of many different types, but would be a great lover of Liverpool F.C. (which will have some relevancy fairly soon), music, international cinema, history, science/medical/biomedical, nature, quizzes, alcohol (althought this might be on the wane now) and looking to widen my ICT knowledge and skills.  This is my third foray in to getting a blog constantly wrote and updated, and I am really hoping this one sticks around because I feel this could have some legs including hopefully for some public interaction and activation, because all our experiences are different somehow. I have had a long history of mental health problems, more specifically with depression and anxiety; I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia whilst at the Univer...