Wow! What a great thread. Thank you to all for taking the time to share. I went to a psych to see what choices I had for my ADHD and he started interviewing me at stage one, something I was not asking him to do. He asked the same old questions and I quickly got very upset but kept the emotions inside as best I could but my answers were ‘protective’ because I had no trust in this person. He would ask me a silly question and then continually interrupt (oh, two r’s ) while he wrote notes. I just wanted to get out of there. Finally he looked up and said; ‘You don’t have ADD you are just…’ and he began listing all the attributes 
of ADD. Geez, Louise. I am a counsellor and work/mentor with youth who are copying with ADHD and/or other labels and each person, though having the same label and often the same stigma, has their own story to tell. I spent more than two years working with my family doctor putting a plan together. I looked at myself as a client so I could distance my self from my emotions and when we had a plan I started on Ritalin 20mg SR twice a day and numbers supplements and diet and approached my ‘new life’ in tiny steps. My life had been like a series of emotional ‘car wrecks’ and a major part of the plan, now that I was on meds, was to ‘learn to drive’ because I ‘could see’. I relearned by unlearning and then exploring what really works in life. I just turned 62 years old a few days ago and I can say that my last to years, from 60 on, have been great. All of my life has been a great journey but ‘now is wow’ and the stupid things that people say about ADHD or anything else usually slips off of me and falls tot he dust of indifference. The ignorant comments now are gifts to test my integrity and so they are gifts although I hope I do not receive too many at once. All the very best friends, jwl
Re: Worst advice – and from a therapist, no less.2011-07-10T18:55:59+00:00