> The dude coaching was someone with obvious ADHD who (like a lot of us) probably had an easier time communicating what should be done than doing it himself. He definitely was no therapist.
I just wanna add to this: ADHD is fundamentally about subjectivity. The trouble with ADHD lives in what it's like to be someone who has it. And medical doctors, scientists, and even psychologists, who don't have ADHD often attend so much to the objective facts that are known about ADHD or particular treatments for it that they neglect, discount, and basically fail to grok virtually anything about what having ADHD is like, what taking stimulant medication is like, and so on.
As a result I've consistently gotten way better care from 'less qualified' clinicians who themselves have ADHD than from 'more qualified' ones who don't. I would (and you should, too) expect a psychiatric nurse or nurse practitioner who has ADHD to do a better job with ADHD patients than a PhD-MD who doesn't. And it's totally reasonable that some random coach who has ADHD but only minimal training could be genuinely helpful.
I just wanna add to this: ADHD is fundamentally about subjectivity. The trouble with ADHD lives in what it's like to be someone who has it. And medical doctors, scientists, and even psychologists, who don't have ADHD often attend so much to the objective facts that are known about ADHD or particular treatments for it that they neglect, discount, and basically fail to grok virtually anything about what having ADHD is like, what taking stimulant medication is like, and so on.
As a result I've consistently gotten way better care from 'less qualified' clinicians who themselves have ADHD than from 'more qualified' ones who don't. I would (and you should, too) expect a psychiatric nurse or nurse practitioner who has ADHD to do a better job with ADHD patients than a PhD-MD who doesn't. And it's totally reasonable that some random coach who has ADHD but only minimal training could be genuinely helpful.