Joshua Davidson Therapy

07/08/2025

How is your energy today?

If this is commonly you, perhaps you are struggling with
* burnout
* depression
* ADHD
* Autism
* an adrenaline problem

We can help figure out what is going on.

06/08/2025

"I have a piece of information you seem to be missing. You may or may not be ready to hear this information, but I'll tell you anyway because knowledge is power, ignorance is a cage, and feelings can be dealt with. I bid you good day."

Hannah Gadsby

04/08/2025

I occasionally get GP's asking me why I passively test all of my clients for ADHD and Autism, which often leads to activer assesssments and then referrals. I respond that in my opinion and experience, if someone has been in the mental health system for over 2 years without resolving their issues, then the odds are very high that we are dealing with a biological problem that is causing poor mental health, rather than a mental health disorder as the primary condition, and the most likley biological cause is ND [being Neurodivergent] (medically an NDD, Neurological Developmental Disorder {as if Autism and ADHD are delays in development rather than different neurology, which can sometimes be advanced}] which are most commonly ADHD and Autism.

My personal professional opinion counts for something, but it isn't anything more than a professional anecdote.

David Eberhard, Eva Billstedt and Christopher Gillberg released the paper "Neurodevelopmental disorders and comorbidity in young adults attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic" in July 2022. In this paper, they report that all first time attenders at a young adult psychiatry (age 18 to 25) clinic were screened for Autism and ADHD along with the more usual psychiatric conditions.

Keep in mind that the general population has around 5% ADHD and 2-3% Autism, with an expected overlap of 35-85% between the two [some populations are far higher, such as refugee camps which can hit 40% ADHD].

Eberhard et al, found that "Almost two thirds (63%) of the study group met criteria for ADHD or ASD" and that most of the patients (especially female presenting) had not been diagnosed in childhood.

I guess that shifts my professional opinion into something backed by another vector of study - it's almost smelling like science now.

[Link to the relevant article : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178122002384 ]

“Missed” cases with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) within adult psychiatry services have attracted increasing attention in the last decade. Key q…

02/08/2025

Synaesthesia is often a perceived as the senses crossing. For example, you may see yellow when you hear certain instruments, like a trumpet. That is, vision is affected by hearing, or put another way, hearing a thing affects what you see.

There is also a mild version where you feel yellow when you hear a trumpet, rather than see it.

In this case, the writer either does sense synaesthesia directly, or just feels the effect of synaesthesia.

Synaesthesia is not exclusively an Autism trait, but it often is. Many Autistic people don't experiences mainstream synaesthesia, but often do feel the milder version - the feel is different.

02/08/2025

31/07/2025

Useful tips

30/07/2025

Like patterns? Sense of completeness is strong? People say you're fussy or accuse you of being a perfectionist? Things being done wrong or things out of place provoke anxiety (or strong unease)? Struggle with people pleasing behaviours? Struggle with unexpected change?

These are strong indicators of one of the types of Autism.

If you resonated to 70+%, you may be Autistic.

28/07/2025

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