The Everything Health Guide to Adult ADDADHD by Carole Jacobs & Isadore Wendel

Author:Carole Jacobs & Isadore Wendel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Adams Media, Inc.
Published: 2010-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Benefits of Talk Therapy

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As one of the oldest types of therapy, talk therapy is exactly what the name implies: It’s an extended conversation between you and your therapist, with the goal of helping you better understand why you think, act, and behave the way you do.

Talk therapy can take many different forms. Throughout insight therapy, you examine your motives and your past behavior for “ah-ha” moments. During support therapy, you and your therapist look for ways to bolster your self-esteem and rein in negative thinking. During group therapy, you address adult ADHD problems as they affect your ability to have healthy interpersonal relationships with your family, your spouse or significant other, your children, and your friends.

Insight or Psychodynamic Therapy

The underlying premise of insight therapy is that our actions are the result of many conscious and unconscious factors, some of which likely stem from childhood experiences your conscious mind may have completely forgotten about, but you still react to on an emotional level.

The goal of insight therapy is to uncover the motivating factors behind what you do, and find ways to adjust them for better results.

Alert

Talk therapy isn’t always a walk in the park. Oftentimes, delving into your past to try to make sense of your present behavior can uncover thoughts, emotions, and memories you’ve suppressed for years because they were too painful to remember. A trained therapist can help you deal with painful recollections and find ways to learn and grow from them.

For instance, maybe you routinely put off paying bills until the very last minute—or until your providers turn off the water, electricity, and gas, and you’re forced to make a payment.

Why you do this is another story. Are you putting it off because you can’t find the bills, hate the drudgery of putting the bill in the mailbox, or because not paying the bills creates a sense of excitement and drama?

You may have deeper or hidden motives for not paying the bills on time. Maybe you unconsciously resent your wife for making you pay the bills and think she should do it instead of you. Or maybe paying the bills makes you feel anxious and insecure because they remind you that you’re not earning as much money as you know you could be making.

Fortunately, an insight therapist is trained to listen closely and carefully to your real and fabricated problems and excuses and help you untangle them so you can come up with a solution to the problem before it destroys your home and marital life.

It could be as easy as making sure all the bills are in one place so you can find and pay them promptly, or putting visual cues on your computer or refrigerator to remind you that bills are due. If you’re avoiding the bills to create excitement, your therapy can help you find more productive ways to create drama in your life that won’t create household chaos.

On the other hand, if you’re not paying the bills because you resent your

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