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Originally Posted by spacecaseyikes
I'm new to all of this, so I haven't used them, but in my town there's a whole medical center dedicated to ADD, so they have therapists who specialize in it. If you live near a mid-sized or larger city, there might be one if you look around for it too. You could also try a coach perhaps? I don't think they're all that helpful for me, but I think they work for most people.
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That's great that you have a place like that close to you. I think there's one of those near me, but they don't take insurance. Go figure. I have thought a coach might be useful, but I don't think I could afford it, whereas therapists are covered by insurance.
The only therapist I found previously, though, turned out to know absolutely nothing about ADD... said that IF ADD existed at all, it was just another name for anxiety. (And when I explained to her that I am at my most inattentive when I am most relaxed, she just acted like I was in denial about my presumed deep-seated anxiety.) Not that I never get anxious, but anxiety is certainly not my main problem, so her form of therapy wasn't really helping my ADHD at all.
I am wondering if a therapist who actually knew what they were doing would be able to help, or if you can't afford coaching, is there really not much help out there besides medication? And for me, medication seems not to work as well as it used to. Even when it was working to its fullest, it helped with some ADHD-related problems but not others.
May 23, 2010, 08:34 PM
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