working towards finding where There is.
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.
Aviv’s reporting reveals Oliver Sacks’s admitted fabrications—but here the focus shifts: what should we make of his nearly 50-year psychoanalysis with Leonard Shengold? Given psychoanalysis’s claims about trauma and repression, was this famously long therapy actually “successful”?
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.
Today is day 1 of There Counselling. Welcome all.
It is my contention that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a corrupt phrase and name. It is a collection of prejudices. Its very existence has prevented scores of people from understanding the truth about themselves, namely that they have adhd.
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.
Aviv’s reporting reveals Oliver Sacks’s admitted fabrications—but here the focus shifts: what should we make of his nearly 50-year psychoanalysis with Leonard Shengold? Given psychoanalysis’s claims about trauma and repression, was this famously long therapy actually “successful”?
Wisdom from the drum throne: A reflection on resilience, creativity, and self-acceptance inspired by drummers El Estepario Siberiano and Miguel Lamas. Explore lessons on comparison, motivation, and becoming the best version of yourself—on and off the drums.
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.
A new client passed along a message about the Memes of the Week for which I am very appreciative—thank you! They said that they really appreciated the humour in the posts.
What I noticed in that moment was my own immediate knee-jerk need to assign a cause. In this instance, we might make the words cause and blame interchangeable. Blame is something like an accusation of causation, and it answers the pointed question, "why did this happen?"
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.
Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer replied, “Maybe.”
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.
