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ADHD Kompas: Czech survival guide for adults with ADHD

→Hybrid site (sections + articles), practical, up-to-date, built in a weekend with Claude Code
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Starting point

February 2026, ADHD diagnosis at 34. My psychiatrist first told me "this can't be ADHD" and prescribed SSRIs. I had to ask for atomoxetine myself. For ten years before the diagnosis I was treating my ADHD with stimulant self-medication, not knowing there's a category of people for whom stimulants are baseline, not recreation.

When I started looking for a Czech resource after the diagnosis, I found two things: nepozornidospeli.cz (a Joomla site from 2013, basic DSM-5, devaluing name) and Dr. Max articles (SEO content without depth). Nothing else.

Why I built it

The Czech ADHD community has 108,000 people who visit a 13-year-old website because nothing else exists. What's missing:

  • A practical guide to diagnosis in the Czech system (not how it SHOULD work, but how it ACTUALLY works)
  • Understandable pharmacology (atomoxetine vs stimulants vs SSRIs, mechanisms, not package inserts)
  • Harm reduction approach to self-medication (information instead of moralizing)
  • Coping strategies from someone with ADHD, not from a therapist without ADHD
  • Women's presentation and the diagnostic gender gap
  • Czech system context (insurance, wait times, how to communicate with a psychiatrist)

Editorial framework

Every section follows the same structure in this order:

  1. Experience — personal story, what it looked like. Reader identifies.
  2. Mechanism — why it makes biochemical sense. 2-3 sentences, understandable.
  3. Evidence — what research says. Citations, data. Collapsible "🔬 Science" box.
  4. System — practical steps. What to do, where to go, how to navigate.

Rule: if research says "doesn't work" and personal experience says "does work", write BOTH. The reader decides who to trust. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Technical stack

  • Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router, TypeScript)
  • Content: Markdown with TypeScript validation, hybrid architecture (sections + articles)
  • Styling: Tailwind CSS, accessible dark mode
  • Hosting: Vercel (free tier, ~$15/year for domain)
  • Build process: Claude Code + 2B as persistent agent

What this demonstrates

The Czech internet doesn't have good ADHD content because nobody writes it from someone who lived it, with sufficient technical and editorial discipline. ADHD Kompas shows that personal expert content can be built fast if:

  • You have authentic experience (no need to pretend)
  • You have a research stack (Claude deep research + pharmacology citations)
  • You use AI as an execution tool, not as an "AI content" generator

This isn't "AI wrote an article about ADHD." This is a person who lived it, writing with AI assistance that cut the process from months to a weekend.

What's next

  • Detailed articles on the diagnostic process in the Czech system (what to say to a psychiatrist, how to get an ADHD diagnosis if they refuse)
  • Stimulant and atomoxetine pharmacology (mechanism, side effects, titration)
  • Self-medication and harm reduction (3-MMC, kratom, caffeine — what people actually do)
  • Women's presentation of ADHD (why women don't get diagnosed until their 30s)
  • Coping stack (what works for me, what doesn't, what research says)

Project: adhdkompas.cz · Stack: Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind · Status: Live, iterating