Which is heavier, wearing a 25kg backpack and having to walk around with it all day every day or not knowing if you and the people in your life are going to be safe—in whatever way you want to conceptualize "safe"—on a day-to-day basis?
What this suggests is that when there are not sufficient rules and laws and conventions, one's imagination is completely ungoverned. And an ungoverned—"fantastic" in Kierkegaard's words—mind ultimately leads one away from oneself... towards the sickness unto death that is despair.
The wellbeing or illness of people is a reflection and product of the society in which they live. It’s true for rats, and its true for people.
One of the little aphorisms I regularly offer to clients is the following: movement begets movement. Problems of movement and stuckness are problems that all client populations face, but it has been my experience that they are particularly common in the population of people with adhd.
It is simply a truism in the counselling world that one of the main struggles clients have is with the feeling of being stuck.
Whenever a discussion about adhd comes up, there’s a strong likelihood that you’ll hear something about dopamine.
Laziness does not exist. It is simply a strategy of making you feel badly for not doing the thing the person accusing you of laziness wants you to do.
This is a meme about interpretation. It points out that when we misinterpret information that is coming from our own bodies, it can land us in real trouble.
The mood of the carnival is ominous. Clients tell me, as the tweet above speaks to, that the content of their thoughts and the emotional tenor of the carnival is existentially heavy.
The number of clients that have come into my office with long standing difficulties that they and their families and their health professionals call depression and anxiety and dysthymia and mood disorders etc. but turn out to flow from a lifetime of dealing with undiagnosed adhd is jaw dropping.
All of us with neurological and metabolic differences need to hear the title of this book ring in our ears, because to use the language of laziness against others or ourselves is to do a kind of judgmental violence that is neither accurate nor effective.
