MUM RAGE #3: 3 Reasons Rage Hits Hours After the Thing That Set It Off.
About this episode
This episode explores the delayed emotional reactions experienced by ADHD mums, particularly focusing on the phenomenon of mum rage and its triggers.
It's 11:00 PM. You sit up in bed with your chest tight and your heart going. Nothing happened. You went to sleep fine. You lie there trying to work out what's wrong with you, and the answer is nothing — except your body has been running a two-hour delayed reaction to a school email you read, closed, and forgot about at 9:02 PM. What We Cover The 9:02 PM email, the 11:00 PM panic, and why the two never show up in the same room at the same time Why a neurotypical mum who gets the same email feels it right then — and what that looks like when Jane asks one about it directly The five stages your body moves through between the trigger and the moment you finally register it — and how long you can spend in each one without knowing Why the quiet moment you've been waiting for all day is exactly when the queue decides it's your turn The misdiagnosis cost: when a doctor treats the reaction as the whole story, what gets written on your medical file — and what keeps walking through the door every day unmanaged Why both can be true — the SSRI doing real work, and an interoceptive delay nobody's ever named for you Free Resources Energy Accounting Guide —…
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