ADHD or OCD? How to tell the difference, and what it means when it's both
Both can leave you stuck on a thought, unable to finish things, and quietly ashamed. But what drives the repetition is different, and so is the treatment.
Is it ADHD or trauma? Why they look alike, and why it's often both
Big emotions, trouble focusing, bracing for criticism, and a long history of feeling like a failure can come from ADHD, from trauma, or from both. Sorting it out changes what helps.
"Do you still love me?" When reassurance in a relationship is actually OCD
If the reassurance never holds for long, no matter how good it is, the problem may not be your communication. It may be OCD, and the relationship has been recruited to feed it.
When ADHD gets mistaken for treatment resistance
You understand the plan and still can't make it happen between sessions. Sometimes that isn't resistance. It's ADHD that the treatment was never built around.
Five reasons relationship OCD stays stuck in therapy
If you've spent months in therapy trying to figure out whether you really love your partner, the problem may be the approach, not you. Here's where ROCD treatment tends to go wrong.
Couples therapy before it's a crisis: when your relationship needs support
Couples therapy isn't only for relationships on the edge. Some of the most useful work happens when two people notice they've lost the thread and decide to find it.
Finding an ADHD therapist as an adult woman
You look capable. Everything feels hard. For a lot of women with ADHD, especially those diagnosed later in life, that gap is the real problem therapy should address.
How to find an OCD therapist who actually does ERP
Kind, supportive therapy can still leave OCD exactly where it was. Here's what specialized OCD treatment looks like and how to tell if a therapist offers it.
Finding the right therapist for eating and body image concerns
Food takes up more room in your head than you want it to. Here's what good therapy for eating and body image looks like, and what to ask before you start.
Your ADHD was treated. Your relationship with food wasn't.
Your ADHD is better managed than it used to be, but your eating still isn't. Here's why that pattern has a structure, and what actually helps.
Insurance vs. private pay: why I work the way I do
Private pay can feel like a door closing. Here's how my practice is set up, why, and how to figure out what therapy would actually cost you.
ADHD and food noise: why your brain won't stop thinking about food
The constant mental chatter about food isn't a character flaw. For many adults with ADHD, it's a regulation problem, and that changes what helps.
Is it binge eating or dopamine seeking?
If you have ADHD and a binge eating label that never quite fit, the mechanism behind your eating may be different. Here's how to tell, and why it matters.
5 signs your binge eating may be connected to ADHD
Not all binge eating is emotional eating. Here are five patterns that suggest ADHD might be part of what's driving it, and why that changes the approach.
ADHD and food: when eating is about dopamine, not hunger
If food sometimes feels less like a choice and more like something your brain is insisting on, the dopamine side of ADHD may explain why.
Late-diagnosed ADHD and the years you thought you were the problem
An adult ADHD diagnosis explains the pattern. It doesn't automatically change how you feel about the years before it. Here's why, and what helps.
Why people with ADHD forget to eat all day and then binge at night
The forget-to-eat-then-binge pattern has a predictable structure in ADHD. Once you see it clearly, it stops looking like a personal failing.
ADHD in women and eating: why the connection gets missed for so long
For a lot of women, the eating struggles showed up long before anyone mentioned ADHD. Here's why the two so rarely get connected, and why it matters when they do.
Why ADHD can lead to binge eating
Binge eating in ADHD is usually a regulation problem, not a willpower problem. Here's how the pieces fit together and why standard advice often misses.
Why ADHD treatment didn't fix your relationship with food
Your focus improved. Your eating didn't. Here's why ADHD treatment so often leaves food untouched, and what tends to help.