Mental Health Therapy
While humans are social animals, not all people benefit from these social interactions. Often there are some changes that can be made to address this, sometimes it is valid to just be alone. Humans evolved long before what we recognise as civilisation existed. The ancestors that branched off from the other Primates 6 million years … Read more
I am frequently fascinated and sometimes a bit horrified by the explanations that my clients give me to explain their feelings, thoughts and behaviours. The vast majority of these concerning explanations are steeped in a belief of ‘personal failure’, misattribution to ‘trauma’ and blaming ‘bad parenting’. While insufficient effort to change, traumatic experience and poor … Read more
“Why can’t parents talk about their experience with Autism?” ‘Because unless they’re Autistic parents,they’re not talking about their “experience with autism”.They are talking about their observations of their Autistic child,filtered through their own non-Autistic perspective.’ The common response Actually, it’s more complicated than that. We know that most parents of Autistic kids are also Autistic … Read more
If a person has sufficient traits of Autism and sufficient traits of ADHD, then that person should be diagnosed with Autism and ADHD Comboridity. “Co-morbid” is the medical term for co-occuring for the same person. The question, though, is how common is a comorbid diagnosis in society, and how common should it be? [Link to … Read more
TL:DR – ADHD is mostly about Dopamine. Noradrenaline (Norepinephrine for the USA) is also often important. Understanding how Dopamine and Noradrenaline affect our feeling is key to understanding a great deal about ADHD. Last time we covered that ADHD is a neurological condition that is poorly defined, but does affect a fair percentage of the … Read more
As October is ADHD Awareness Month, we will be taking a detailed look at ADHD – what it is, what it isn’t, what it means, and what to do about it. ADHD is an initialism that translates to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It’s a terrible name that only describes the behavioural characteristics of a few … Read more
I was talking to a client today about “Average Jo Envy”. TL:DR – The most common group is the “average” group. Peer group pressure makes us feel like we have to conform. Not fitting in to the most common group triggers fears of rejection. Fatigue and a lack of guidance on how to fit in … Read more
People can be hard. It can be difficult to work out what who to trust and who to distrust. Some people need special care in handling, some people are just toxic. Here is a series of ideas that helps you to get from meeting with the assumption that they are decent, to a potential recognition … Read more
I’ve heard quite a lot of people state that they think that Autism is overdiagnosed, and a few stating we are in an Autism Pandemic. No. This is not true. Part of the problem lies in comprehending what a diagnosis actually means, because most people don’t understand what Autism actually is. The stigma is that … Read more
When we look at an object, light reflects off that surface, strikes our eyes, goes through our lens, triggers photo-receptors on our retinas, triggers an ion cascade through nerve fibres to our brain, branches through our limbic early warning system and up through to our occipital region to paint an hallucination of the object within … Read more