How philosophy can help us to understand adhd: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is still not widely known and is even more poorly understood but, in my clinical experience, globally experienced by those of us who have adhd.
On self-love
We live in the present of our predicted futures.
Perfectionism, Part I: The Problem of the Product
Perfectionism causes personal and professional problems for perfectionists themselves and those around them. And, in a bitter twist of irony, it turns out to be an inefficient and ineffective way of producing good work with any consistency. Perfectionism is not segregated in any single population, but it is one of the most common difficulties experienced by people with adhd.
Representations of “Everything:” A movie, a philosophy, and a dream
Today’s post is a description of the unseen force of the feeling of everythingness. If the feeling is of everythingness is the aspect under examination, then that leads to the question, what is everything?
Kill the meaning. Keep the name.
All people with adhd deal with hyperactivity in some form. All. It is a corrupt practice to say that boys and men who exhibit a surplus of movement have adhd and girls and women who exhibit a surplus of psychic activity—worry, indecisiveness, nervousness, fearfulness, and perseveration—have an anxiety disorder. This is the very definition of prejudice.
The “no” of adhd
There exists in every person with adhd a ‘no’ lying in wait. I simply call it oppositionalism. To be oppositional means to stand against something.
Listen to hart on HSIHADHD
Listen to my fun and wide ranging conversation with Robbie McDonald and Jordan Lane on their podcast Holy Sh*t I have ADHD (HSIHADHD). Facebook Twitter
An attempt at an introduction
Become such as you are, having learned what that is.
Intro to Existential Psychotherapy: The Story of Pickle and Pepper
The story of existential psychotherapy told through the lens of a family’s relationship to their pet rats.