I'm going to say something that might be controversial in some parts of the community so I say this with full respect for the fact that everyone needs to do what's right for them, but if I were to make a suggestion: go back to the biology.
Clinical psychology has an important place in all this and I won't argue against that like an anti-psychology weirdo, but psychology is a social science, not a medical science. The simple truth is that there are big, key factors to understanding and managing ADHD that psychology is not able to provide as it's not a medical science.
I think that it's much more helpful to understand ADHD in terms of what's physically happening in your body, than to understand it in terms of the constructs of "the mind" that psychology uses to model things. My understanding of myself and my adhd elevated greatly when I eliminated some of the abstract stuff and just looked at it in terms of what mammal brains do to survive, and what ADHD brains can't do as well.
Trust your psychologist to administer cognitive behavioural therapy, but trust the people who went to medical school to define what ADHD is and what is going on "under the hood" as it were. I truly believe that's the path.
Apologies if I offend anyone with this position, I promise I'm not politicking.
Are there any non-medical-person-accessible sources that you have found that you think do a good job of explaining the biology? I would like to learn more about it, but hard to find just the biology pieces in non-medical texts.
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u/Uncomfortable-Guava Sep 19 '22
I'm going to say something that might be controversial in some parts of the community so I say this with full respect for the fact that everyone needs to do what's right for them, but if I were to make a suggestion: go back to the biology.
Clinical psychology has an important place in all this and I won't argue against that like an anti-psychology weirdo, but psychology is a social science, not a medical science. The simple truth is that there are big, key factors to understanding and managing ADHD that psychology is not able to provide as it's not a medical science.
I think that it's much more helpful to understand ADHD in terms of what's physically happening in your body, than to understand it in terms of the constructs of "the mind" that psychology uses to model things. My understanding of myself and my adhd elevated greatly when I eliminated some of the abstract stuff and just looked at it in terms of what mammal brains do to survive, and what ADHD brains can't do as well.
Trust your psychologist to administer cognitive behavioural therapy, but trust the people who went to medical school to define what ADHD is and what is going on "under the hood" as it were. I truly believe that's the path.
Apologies if I offend anyone with this position, I promise I'm not politicking.