Hmmn, how does someone with ADHD relax? With great difficulty, is the answer. My body is only happy when it’s moving. If I’m sitting on the sofa, I’m tapping my feet or using a fidget device. If I’m sunning in the garden, I manage about ten minutes before I’m up and about, weeding the borders or tidying up. If I’m in the pub, I’ll play with the beer mats and rip them up. If I’m in a café, I’ll roll the receipts into cones. I can’t have the cats sitting on my lap, because it irritates me so much that I can’t move. And if my body needs to move all the time, my poor mind is even worse. It just does not stop. All day. It flits like a butterfly from topic to topic, dancing with all manner of subjects that pique its curiosity. You would think that doing art would calm my mind, but it doesn’t. It just makes it worse! What helps me calm both mind and body is sitting quietly by candlelight in the evening. I switch off the TV and all my devices. I put my books away and make sure the cats are settled, my wife is in bed, and then I’m on my own. It is my time. My moment of calm. My haven from the hyperactivity. It is when I recharge and tell my activity addled mind and body to shut up. And I love it.