Freelance journalist beset by quandaries. She/her.
Aug 20, 2021 • 10 tweets • 11 min read
@ADDeeCee@maybeADHdee@stuheritage I got over agoraphobia the first (and second) time by strictly paring my life down (as much as was possible) to a three-pronged approach:
1. Exposure therapy 2. Talk therapy 3. EXTREME SELF CODDLING ..
@ADDeeCee@maybeADHdee@stuheritage 1. Graded exposure: a CBT based method of lowering your panic response through daily exposure. I was fully housebound so my first exercise was going to the bottom of my garden, noting my panic level on a worksheet like page 13 bit.ly/3kecOBU , staying as long as I could
Aug 19, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s a lovely piece by @stuheritage, who is constantly and tirelessly trying to innovate a way to Patch-Adams me out of my low ebb.
The weekend my husband took the kids camping, I lined up 5 binegable feel-good movies on Netflix, then cleared off the sofa, and spent the entire weekend wondering why I couldn’t bring myself to sit down. Depression-anxiety-ADHD-bereavement-breakdown. Do not recommend.
Feb 27, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Hey, here’s a question:
How do you select, direct and evaluate therapy?
• Psychiatry? Psychology? Psychotherapy? Counselling? “Other”? How to choose/differentiate?
• What if you have multiple diagnoses and/or issues?
• And what if your only “therapy goal” is “to feel better”?
I ask this after 20 years of therapy (various; extortionate) that managed to entirely miss my SEVERE LIFELONG ADHD, but ALSO ascribed (what I now know as) my ADHD behaviour symptoms, including confusion/forgetfulness, to “a lack of engagement”, which was relatively harmful.
Nov 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Today would have been my mother’s 75th birthday, so here’s a quick message of support to anyone who’s had to distance themselves from a loved one: I loved my mother. My mother died six months ago, and I am still grieving — but I have no regrets.
People who have good family relationships will never understand that you can love someone but still be estranged from them. They may assume you’re selfish, lazy, uncaring or plain stupid, and pressure you to reconcile “before it’s too late”.
