Client dialogue: Adhd and Trauma and Bears... oh my.
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.
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Today is day 1 of There Counselling. Welcome all.
Kill the meaning. Keep the name.
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.
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Client dialogue: Adhd and Trauma and Bears... oh my.
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.
Meme of the week: important messages from the olds
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.
The problem of causality: the satisfaction and insufficiency of blame
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?"
Meme of the week: Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
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.
The problem of causality: the Chinese parable of the wise farmer
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.”
Why? vs Why not?
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.
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Feelings vs Emotions, Part II: Dirty Fuels and Fatigue
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.”
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Feelings vs Emotions, Part I: Loud Bodies
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.
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What is adult adhd?
Adult adhd is not a thing. It is as I described in a my previous post: a corrupt name that follows a corrupt concept.
Meme of the week: I forgot to take my highly addictive drugs
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.
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The stories of Fidgety Phillip and Johnny-head-in-air
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.