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Could you explain what/how the CBT helped? Where I am in Europe the default treatment is only medication which feels inadequate on its own.

corobo 3y ago
I think this is where things diverge depending on what troubles the ADHD brings you. It's kinda like debugging a program except the program is your brain - and yeah in the UK it's medication only by default, had to sort out the CBT side of things myself when I realised the meds were helping but not quite doing enough alone. I originally went for help with low confidence which expanded out to digging into and addressing self-esteem, confidence, social anxiety, procrastination, and perfectionism. If I'd taken one general thing from it though it's "do I have evidence or is this an assumption?" - if I have no evidence (that I'm terrible at my job, I did bad, that guy hates me, etc) then I should reevaluate if it's even accurate before doing anything with the thought Writing things down when things go wrong was a big part of it too - what's the situation, what led to the situation, is it possible to view the situation in a better light, if not how can I fix the situation, if I can't fix things myself is there anyone that can help me with this situation rather than wallowing in it. That sort of thing. As I say I imagine it'll differ from person to person so other people may have an entirely different experience with it, I'm not sure. Definitely worked for my systems/coding flavoured brain though, really was like debugging faults in a program. Figure out the underlying issue, try a fix, did it work? y/n? If no, try another fix. If yes, work on the next problem.
chimeracoder 3y ago
> Could you explain what/how the CBT helped? Where I am in Europe the default treatment is only medication which feels inadequate on its own. Where are you? I can't think of a single place in Europe where medication alone is the treatment standard for ADHD.
- user_7832 3y ago
  I’m in the Netherlands. To be clear this is what my gp has told me, I haven’t cross checked what he said (They’re generally quite knowledgeable about what insurance covers and doesn’t. Also to clarify I’m talking about the insurance covered one, not out of pocket treatment.)

corobo 3y ago

I think this is where things diverge depending on what troubles the ADHD brings you. It's kinda like debugging a program except the program is your brain - and yeah in the UK it's medication only by default, had to sort out the CBT side of things myself when I realised the meds were helping but not quite doing enough alone. I originally went for help with low confidence which expanded out to digging into and addressing self-esteem, confidence, social anxiety, procrastination, and perfectionism. If I'd taken one general thing from it though it's "do I have evidence or is this an assumption?" - if I have no evidence (that I'm terrible at my job, I did bad, that guy hates me, etc) then I should reevaluate if it's even accurate before doing anything with the thought Writing things down when things go wrong was a big part of it too - what's the situation, what led to the situation, is it possible to view the situation in a better light, if not how can I fix the situation, if I can't fix things myself is there anyone that can help me with this situation rather than wallowing in it. That sort of thing. As I say I imagine it'll differ from person to person so other people may have an entirely different experience with it, I'm not sure. Definitely worked for my systems/coding flavoured brain though, really was like debugging faults in a program. Figure out the underlying issue, try a fix, did it work? y/n? If no, try another fix. If yes, work on the next problem.

chimeracoder 3y ago

> Could you explain what/how the CBT helped? Where I am in Europe the default treatment is only medication which feels inadequate on its own. Where are you? I can't think of a single place in Europe where medication alone is the treatment standard for ADHD.

user_7832 3y ago
I’m in the Netherlands. To be clear this is what my gp has told me, I haven’t cross checked what he said (They’re generally quite knowledgeable about what insurance covers and doesn’t. Also to clarify I’m talking about the insurance covered one, not out of pocket treatment.)