Aaron Whitfield, Mental-health writer

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Aaron Whitfield

Mental-health writer

Aaron is a mental-health writer who came to this work the long way, through his own stretch of looking productive and feeling switched off. He writes for Tuun about functional freeze, the messy overlap with ADHD and attention, and why the usual advice to just try harder tends to backfire. He cares about plain language, honest framing, and never pretending a nervous-system state is a character flaw.

Writing by Aaron Whitfield (1)

  • A man in his late 30s sits at a wooden desk by a sunlit window, an open laptop and notebooks in front of him, forehead resting against one hand as he stares past the screen, caught in a stalled can't-begin moment that captures functional freeze and ADHD task paralysis.
    Foundations

    Functional freeze and ADHD: when you can't tell which one is stopping you

    Functional freeze and ADHD task paralysis can look identical from the outside. How to tell them apart, and why the way out looks similar either way.

    Aaron Whitfield