My therapist and his wife wanted to have a child. My therapist's wife has ADHD and also struggles with depression. Even though his wife has ADHD, her IQ level is "genius". He told me that for his wife to have a child, it meant she would not be able to take antidepressants during her pregnancy. It was HELL for her and she turned to trying electro shock treatments to help her and he mentioned how it proved to be very helpful. Because it was SUCH A CHALLENGE they are only going to have that one child that a little boy. This little boy inherited the ADHD like his mother. They are VERY involved parents, and they have taken the time to LEARN about ADHD and they both take turns interacting with their young son. He explained to me how to handle the often short attention span that presents with ADHD. It was helpful in that my husband has ADHD and he has always been a challenge, and the knowledge about this challenge simply was not there when I could have used it to understand him better.

After listening to my therapist talk about what his wife had to go through to have their child, YES, they are very INVOLVED parents. Yet, they are also very involved because their child has some challenges and they geniunely want to help him navigate despite his challenge.

Then one day I went in for a therapy session and the therapist's door was closed and her husband, a psychiatrist called me into his office. To my surprise her husband said, "My wife and I have been doing nothing but learning so much from you and talking about what you have shared with us". He said. "I want to thank you so much for how much you helped us because we have decided to raise our children differently because of what we learned from you. You know, I spent a lot of money for all those sessions, and I never expected that I was helping these two parents and they never helped me at all other than to thank me like that. His wife decided to change things so she could be THERE to raise their children.

Then this psychiatrist said, "How about I write you a prescription for Valium".