From “holy shit, is this what normal feels like?” to crashing off a cliff at 3pm, Josephine’s ADHD meds journey wasn’t quick or clean. It took time, self-advocacy, and stubborn hope to find the right med, dose—and duration.
What follows is a writing project I worked on with a client. The thing that is missing from the vast majority of work written on psychotherapy is the voice of clients.
APD is not a thing for which there is cure in the form of a pill. APD is a way in which your brain interprets an aspect of the world, i.e. the auditory part of the world. APD gets better when the environments in which you exist takes into consideration your form of auditory processing.
When we ask the question why, we are inquiring about the causes of things. It is my hypothesis that those of who are neuro-deviant have a special relationship with causality, and I think it has a profound effect on the way we experience our world and the way we spend our metabolic resources.
In today’s post, I will focus on emotions. “Emotions,” as Damasio notes in Part 1 “indicate actions,” and then later describes them as “concerts of actions.”
The language of psychology can be confusing. But the use of precise language is critically important to the process of counselling, because we cannot attend to the parts of the world that we cannot name.
Adult adhd is not a thing. It is as I described in a my previous post: a corrupt name that follows a corrupt concept.
This one is going to be a bit of a screed. To all the good and empathetic doctors out there... you can sit this one out.
The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny head-in-air were written by Heinrich Hoffman in the mid-19th century. Hoffman was a Physician and Psychiatrist professionally but is best remembered for his illustrated children's stories called Struwwelpeter.
I'm don't feel great about the language we currently use to describe and denote those of us who have a neurological difference.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is still not widely known and is even more poorly understood but, in my clinical experience, globally experienced by those of us who have adhd.
I love this one, because in two short sentences, the author conveys a sense of some of the ways—there are many more—in which those of us with adhd experience sensory/perceptual overwhelm that might be surprising to neurotypical readers.
