What do we lose when we view boredom and curiosity as "symptoms" of ADHD? It seems we have become so casual about medicalizing and pathologizing off-task states of mind that we have forgotten that the mind often wanders for reasons having to do with boredom and curiosity, not because we were unluckily born with a “grass-hopper” brain.
Read MorePanic signifies a deeper psychological struggle requiring treatment that both manages and understands symptoms. Many clients who get flooded and overwhelmed by anxiety are unaware of the real sources of their distress, the knowledge of which would better inform them how to more effectively and productively turn their lives around. This has implications for how we best treat panic in clients during the Covid pandemic. If we stop short at just helping clients manage their panic, we run the risk of foreclosing deeper conversations about the underlying sources of their dread and side-stepping more on-target ways of dealing with it.
Read MoreAccording to one of the most reputable surveys of its kind, the National Comorbidity Study Replication (NCS-R), almost one in five Americans has met the criteria for an anxiety disorder over the past year, and an estimated one in three people will experience an anxiety disorder in their lives. Bearing in mind that in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) estimated lifetime prevalence rates of anxiety disorders in the 2 to 4% range, it is safe to say that the diagnosing of anxiety disorders has spiked in recent decades.
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