I am a Christian mum-of-five and I just found out I have ADHD

Diagnosed with ADHD at the tender age of 40, here’s what writer and mum-of-five Julie Williams learnt about herself along the way…

I don’t know about you, but I grew up in a home with a very sparse medicine cabinet. Fiercely proud of our unearned good health, my mum insisted that almost any ailment could be fixed with a single aspirin. And in our family’s case, she was largely right! Yet while I was mercifully protected from the ravages of serious illness and never (ever) in danger of being over-medicated, I’ve come to realise that I wasn’t spared from that most dreaded of ailments: mental health issues.

The fact that it took me four whole decades to discover that I had ADHD is perhaps not surprising, considering my long-held, unspoken belief that most (if not all) head issues literally and figuratively are just in one’s head. Patient and kind as he is though, God has been at work… slowly, gently, leading me around the same mountains until I was brave, humble and exhausted enough to tire of the familiar landscapes and the perpetual chaos, and finally stop to ask for a little help in the (cough) mental department.