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There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in after someone reads their assessment report for the first time. It's not relief exactly, and it's not distress either. It's harder to name than that. People will describe sitting there with the document open on their laptop, reading some paragraph about executive functioning or rejection sensitivity, and just feeling a bit like the ground has moved. As a Psychologist Melbourne clients tend to come to when the version of themselves they've...

There is a version of the "ADHD strengths" conversation that a lot of adults with ADHD find frustrating. It tends to go something like this: you are so creative, so energetic, so "outside-the-box". As though the condition that makes it genuinely hard to pay a bill on time, hold a relationship together, or get through a workday without running on empty is actually some kind of gift. It invalidates what is hard. Sometimes it just feels like being told to look on the bright side by someone who...

Most people who end up in therapy have already been fighting their anxiety for a long time before they get there. And by the time they sit down, they're exhausted in a very specific way. Not just tired of feeling anxious, but tired of trying so hard to not feel anxious. They've done the breathing exercises. They've tried meditating. Some have read enough about CBT that they could probably teach an introductory class on it. And the anxiety is still there. Often louder than before, and now...