It's a shame that moral support is needed, but I've been the moral support for others. The shrink says with a smile that you have a permanent mental defect and that therapy and meds are needed for you to have any chance to have an inkling of a "normal" life.

And what a hit a person's already negative (and false) self image takes to hear that?

The healing is to evolve out of the need to have any image of self at all, positive or negative. Until then, life is a mind game and the mind game is only full of loser, no winners, because a life in the mind is our misery.

This is my self healing story...comments welcome

http://www.profound-self-help.com/adhd-self-help.html