Talk therapy over 12 to 18 months doesn't fix ADHD symptoms, but it shifts how people relate to them. Patients report less shame and stress, and a stronger capacity to function in a world that doesn't support how their brains work.
I've seen how talk therapy over a period of time, you know, in 12 months or 18 months, leads people to change their relationship to their ADHD. This is severely, people diagnosed with severe impairment as a result of ADHD have come back. You know, we see them and then we have a break and come back. And after 6 months, they come back and tell me, you know, things. It's not that they are dramatically better at managing their lives, but their relationship to the way that they live is completely changed. And that massively reduces the stress, the shame, the— You know, the embarrassment, the humiliation, and it does affect their— it massively increases their capacity to function in a world that they say isn't made for them.
