The Quiet Mind

Name: The Quiet Mind
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ISBN: 9781764688758

Finding Peace Amidst Sensory Overload

David Buch

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English

David Buch
12 May 2026

Psychology; Abnormal psychology

The Quiet Mind is a practical, humane guide to neurodivergence, trauma, sensory overload and recovery.

Written from lived experience rather than clinical distance, this book gives language to the inner noise many neurodivergent adults have carried for years: the sensory pressure, the emotional exhaustion, the masking, the shutdowns, the meltdowns, the shame, and the strange grief of discovering late in life that the problem was never moral failure.

David Buch writes as someone diagnosed later in life with autism, ADHD and complex post-traumatic stress, after decades of navigating high-pressure technical, legal and professional environments while privately managing a nervous system that was often overloaded, alert and misunderstood.

The Quiet Mind does not promise a cure, because neurodivergence is not a disease. Instead, it offers a practical map for understanding overload before it becomes collapse. It explores how sensory input, trauma, executive function, masking, social exhaustion, burnout and old shame interact inside the body, and how small, repeatable practices can help reduce unnecessary internal war.

The book is written for neurodivergent adults, late-diagnosed readers, trauma survivors, partners, parents, friends, clinicians, teachers, managers and anyone trying to understand why ordinary life can sometimes feel unbearably loud.

Inside, readers will find clear explanations and practical tools for:

recognising sensory overload before it spills over; understanding the ADHD/autism ""double engine""; distinguishing preference from capacity; reducing shame after meltdown or shutdown; using the body as an early warning system; creating routines that support rather than punish; communicating when flooded or wordless; building a personal quiet mind plan; recovering from burnout and masking; advocating without turning every need into a battle.

This is not a book about becoming calm by force. It is a book about learning to notice earlier, reduce input sooner, recover with less shame, and design a life that fits the nervous system you actually have. The aim is not perfect calm.

The aim is less unnecessary war.

By: David Buch
Imprint: David Buch
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9781764688758
ISBN 10: 1764688759
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Buch is a software architect and writer, born in Johannesburg and raised on a yacht that crossed the Atlantic before he was seven. He has lived and worked across six countries and built systems for clients ranging from the Australian Cabinet to the Belgian Federal Police, from Royal Australian Air Force weapons procurement to the Liquid Radiation Tracking Process at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.He read law in the United Kingdom and holds separate degrees in Computer Science and Psychology and has spent more than three decades building enterprise software for organisations that needed it to work the first time. His own diagnoses came late, and The Quiet Mind is, in part, the book he wishes someone had handed him in his twenties.He lives in Australia and is a Kahu to his four beloved cats