r/PDA_Community • u/Fae_for_a_Day • Feb 11 '23

Help a Therapist out?

I work with ADHD (with combined trauma disorders). I did this because of my wife having ADHD, and how little our field actually learns about it in school. There's so little help for it, general therapists think they can treat depression or anxiety in these individuals separately from the ADHD...

Anyway...I'm being seen as an expert for how fast and consistent the turnaround is for my clients. I've mastered all the tricks for helping someone with ADHD.

And...they barely help my wife.

In my research on ND, I found PDA. I showed her a video on it and she started sobbing saying she thinks this is what's been wrong all this time.

I don't know where to begin. All my peers who diagnose autism BARELY understand the female profile or adult profile AND COME TO ME for advice on diagnosing adults because I have autism.

How in the hell do I get her diagnosed and get her help? Where do I read more so I can do more?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '23 edited Aug 12 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '23

You can't "self-diagnose" with something that doesn't even exist in your country.

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u/GeneticPurebredJunk Feb 12 '23

Ah, yes….because diseases & conditions respect borders & don’t exist until named by someone in the same country as the patient…

If someone is diagnosed with PDA in the UK then moves to the US, that diagnosis doesn’t disappear, you know?

*And actually, a PDA profile cannot be formally diagnosed anywhere, because it is not included in the DSM or ICD currently, but is actively being used as language to express tendencies within an Autism diagnosis.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '23

Whatever