Clinical Psychologist: How To Overcome ADHD Overwhelm

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Michaela Thomas is a clinical psychologist, therapist and founder of The Thomas Connection. Michaela helps high-striving busy people find balance over burnout, so they can live, love and work in a more meaningful way. Michaela specialises in overcoming perfectionism with a passion towards helping ADHD adults let go of procrastination. Chapters: 00:26 Why people with ADHD procrastinate 03.54 Michaela’s ADHD mission 06:01 The link between perfectionism and procrastination 13:47 The emotional toll of perfectionism 18:19 Can perfectionism cause depression 20:56 Tiimo advert 22:07 The 3 circles of emotion 26:22 ADHD procrastination VS Autistic procrastination 29:33 The hidden cost of perfectionism 31:21 The reality of ADHD burnout 33:06 Michaela’s ADHD item 38:23 Audience questions 42:27 A letter to my younger self Visit Michaela’s website 👉 https://thethomasconnection.co.uk Visit Michaela on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/the_thomas_connection/?hl=en Buy Michaela’s book 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lasting-Connection-Developing-Compassion-Yourself/dp/1472144279/ Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/offers/adhdchatter Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817 Pre-order Alex's RSD book 👉 https://linktr.ee/adhdchatter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=ea82de5e-b756-4a6b-8a42-aca56d9cee01 Producer: Timon Woodward Recorded by: Hamlin Studios DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Michaela, thank you so much for joining us.
0:02.0	Thank you for having me. It's exciting to be here.
0:05.0	I'm so pleased you're here. I think this is going to be a really life-changing episode.
0:09.0	Procrastination is one of my biggest problems. I've so ashamed of my to-do list, it's as long as my forearm.
0:17.0	I've tripped over a suitcase that was from a holiday months ago, so I'm desperate for some help.
0:24.5	But I guess to start with, and this is super interesting, why do you think people with ADHD
0:29.7	struggle with procrastination so much?
0:34.4	Well, it's kind of a bigger point of why the struggle with initiating anything.
0:39.3	So we know that task initiation can be difficult because it's part of our executive functioning, right?
0:45.0	It's getting yourself organized to start something.
0:48.4	It's finding the energy to start something.
0:50.9	There's a lot of things that neurotypical people just get up and go.
0:54.8	And sometimes that can be hard to even just get off the sofa to go and brush your teeth,
0:58.8	because that means you have to get off the sofa. So it's that inertia that can be.
1:04.0	We're almost like in stuckness, stuck mode, and you can't go going. So if you then have
1:09.0	something that you have to do that is not even remotely interesting or
1:12.6	fun or exciting or rewarding, like emptying your suitcase, why would you be bouncing off
1:17.9	the sofa to do that?
1:19.0	There's very little dopamine in doing that.
1:22.7	When we have an interest-based nervous system, we want to do things that are exciting and fun
1:26.9	and novel and
1:27.7	give us a challenge. Or it's an urgency. Like suddenly your partner is saying, if you don't open
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