adhd
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An immodest proposal on the language of neurological difference
I'm don't feel great about the language we currently use to describe and denote those of us who have a neurological difference.
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adhd
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How philosophy can help us to understand adhd: the curious case of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
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.
Meme of the week: my clothes felt weird
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.
Welcome to There Counselling
Today is day 1 of There Counselling. Welcome all.
Critique
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The future is everything, or how to psychologize with a hammer
As I have worked with clients over these past five years, it has become clear to me that the foundational determinant of well-being is our relation to the (our) future.
Anomie and the cost of the future
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?
Naming
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Anomie vs depression
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.
Meme(s) of the week: rats, isolation, pornography, and shopping, also... the meaning(s) of life
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.
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Stuckness and movement, Part II: movement begets movement
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.
Stuckness and movement, Part I: the experience of stuckness
It is simply a truism in the counselling world that one of the main struggles clients have is with the feeling of being stuck.
Meme of the week: the value of dopamine
Whenever a discussion about adhd comes up, there’s a strong likelihood that you’ll hear something about dopamine.
Meme of the week: laziness still doesn't exist
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.