Joshua Davidson

Chronic Pain is awful. To have a diagnosis of Chronic Pain, you need to be in significant pain for most of the day, for most of the days of the week. To define significant pain, we include “I move differently, and or avoid doing some things so that I don’t hurt” when those are activities … Read more

Determining Real is an important step in trying to find the difference between truth and fiction. It is far too easy these days to be led into thinking that fiction is true. What can we do to combat that? You may also be interested in: The Reality Heuristic: A method to help us in determining … Read more

Many people love christmas. For them, christmas is a time of joy, sharing and good will. I wish them the best and I’m glad they enjoy it. For others, this time of year is hell. Here we will be looking at why people struggle, and some things you can do for surviving christmas. There are … Read more

The medical texts required you to be gender dysphoric for you to be able to access gender affirming care for being trans. This ignores two important aspects of being trans, autistic perceptions of discomfort and pain; and trans euphoria. In Australia, the medical texts required you to be “Gender Dysphoric” for you to be able … Read more

There is a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza. And to fix that hole, I need to fix another thing, and to fix that… Hopefully we all know the song, where Henry is stuck, unable to do any task, because every task needs something else to be done first, and each of those … Read more

We’ve added a page to our ADHD section, “what-medications-are-actually-useful” [LINK], which looks at natural remedies, and medications.

Sometimes we are not sure what is most important for us to do. For people who see me for therapy, here is a guideline of The Priority 5. 1) Medication2) Food3) Safety4) Your happiness5) Someone else’s happiness* Happiness follows the Consent Rules [LINK]

Hopefully we are all aware of Spoon Theory, how we have a certain amount of personal resource simplified and represented as Spoons. That we have a certain amount of these Spoons to spend on tasks, and that all tasks cost some Spoons, that we get some spoons back with food and rest, that some medications … Read more

Welcome to #Auctober! This is Autism Pride Month. Autism is primarily a divergent way that human brains work, that is notably different to that of the biggest neuro (brain) type, the “neurotypical”. More accurately, Autism is a collection of traits that are human traits, but either hyper (above) or hypo (below) the common neurotypical person. … Read more

In this weeks Therapist Hot Tips, we cover 6 Phases of Trauma Therapy, 5 Fixes for Weird Thought and Mood, and 4 Brain Fog Inefficiencies. 6 Phases of Trauma Therapy In this Therapist Hot Take, we take a super fast look at the important first 5 phases of Trauma Therapy before we get on to … Read more