ADHD How Do You Build Community When You're Convinced Everyone Hates You? Being in community doesn't necessarily mean being friends with people. I've come to think of it as being known to others; where your presence or absence is noted.
Tyranny of Doing-Executive Dysfunction Previous Tyranny of Doing posts: Trauma, Activism, Home and Family A huge section of my practice focuses on folks with ADHD and Autism. Some clients come to me already diagnosed, and some come for a different reason and we determine over time that many of their struggles are connected to
Current Events The Tyranny of Doing: Activism I find the “Tyranny of Doing” to show up a lot in activism spaces, especially online. Feeling helpless, and the anxiety that comes with it, often feeds into the internal and external pressure to “Do Something”.
ADHD The Tyranny of Doing: Impact of Trauma There is an inherent bias towards noticing an action rather than inaction. Because the “tyranny of doing” is baked in to our, culture, societal norms, and laws, there is implicit judgement of “doing nothing” in response to danger.
Mental Health Grief Is An Appropriate Response Grief sucks. And in a culture that really only makes space for grief connected to the death of someone known to the griever, there are a huge variety of griefs that go unrecognized.
Mental Health Pushing Past The Fear Come for the snark and stick around for the mental health insights. Or come for the mental health information and stick round for the snark. Either way is good with me!
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