Comments on: Physciatric Therapy and ADHD

By: Katy B.

Katy B. — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:14:57 +0000

I freaking love my therapist, and my ADHD boyfriend also loves his therapist.

Being diagnosed with ADHD made my life make soooo much more sense, and my therapist has been there for all of the great, moving realizations I’ve had about my life, my family, everything, with this new context of “I have ADHD”. There’s also a lot of non-ADHD stuff that she’s been great at helping me to work through.

You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to make me stop going to therapist. It’s not always easy, but it’s ALWAYS worthwhile and helpful.

If you go to one and just don’t like them, you can try a different one…sometimes it’s about fit…but when you find a good fit, you won’t be sorry.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:43:15 +0000

Hello, My son had ADHD and is on medicationto help him balance himself and be able to study. We go to a famlity therapist and it really does help us. When he was very little we went quite often as we were in the process of discovery and diagnosis. More recently and as he had gotten older we are going much less as he has other outlets – sports, friends, school etc. I found that having a therepist has helped to provide a neutral place for him to talk about whatever is on his mind without the fear of judgement. It has also helped him to find the words to understand and express what it is like for him to have ADHD. I strongly believe that therpay is a huge component to managing life with adhd. My hope is that as he grows into a man he will continue to gather tools for his toolkit so that as an adult his ADHD is just a fact of life and not something he is ashamed of or hindered by. I have every confidence that we can help him do this.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:22:48 +0000

Bryan,
Days have changed much I think over the years as far as the stigma of going to see a counselor or saying you are on antidepressents. Now it seems you are no cool if you are not doing one of the above.

We have more of choice out there as far as therapy. When I first found out I had ADD I saw one person for my meds and then another counselor. This counselor had no idea about ADD. She would drive me crazy because she would give me handouts and show me pictures of rocks and which meant you were happy or sad. What that had to do with what I was going through, I have no idea.

I finally asked the counselor, I was seeing for meds, if she would take me on for counseling instead of the other counselor. She said yes. I was lucky because she knew all about ADD and has it herself, so how much better can you get. I sometimes think that if it was not for her I do not know where I would be.I could say anything I wanted and she would finish my sentence sometimes, which is funny in itself.

If you feel like you are ready to make that step towards seeing a counselor, THEN DO IT! Do your homework and see if that person knows and belives in ADD/ADHD. If you find a counselor, which I hope you do, you will feel so much better. I feel like my appoinments are my 45 minutes of freedom and able to be me.

If you do not feel the person you are seeing, do not stick with them—-go find another one. I did and glad I did..

Try it you will like it and will help you get through so many things that you are so down on yourself about.

Good Luck,

Mindy