Jena Plummer

The basketball analogy that completely changed the way I think about the DSM criteria I’m the type of person who loves to dive deep. If something doesn’t make sense to my brain, I can’t just accept it and move on. I need to understand why. I want to know how the pieces fit together. All of the pieces. That’s especially true when I’m involved in something as important as diagnosis. I take this stuff really seriously because I know how life-changing it can truly be. Over the past few years I’ve...

Both conditions can look remarkably similar from the outside. The difference is in the details and getting it wrong has real consequences. If you've spent any amount of time on mental health TikTok or falling down a WebMD rabbit hole at 1am, you've probably wondered at some point: Is this ADHD? Is this bipolar disorder? Is it both? Is it neither and I'm just a disaster? I know it feels like you're just being dramatic, but you aren't. The overlap is genuinely real, and the confusion is...

There’s a kind of disconnection that a lot of neurodivergent people carry, and it usually doesn’t come from one big moment. It builds slowly, in small interactions that don’t seem that significant at the time but end up shaping how you relate to yourself. It starts with something simple. You notice the lights feel too bright.Your clothes don’t sit right on your body.There’s a tone in someone’s voice that shifts, and you feel it immediately, even if no one else seems to react. Your body is...