Medications Help You Focus — Counseling Helps You Focus on What Matters

When helping our patients struggling with ADHD, these are my thoughts around Stimulant Medications and counseling.

 
Medications help patients to “zoom into” thoughts and feelings to take consistent action for impact.

Counseling helps folks with “zooming out” in the “right amount” to gain the clarity to “zoom into” the stuff that matters to them and the people they care about, stuff that they can control, and stuff that is workable in their context.

So a combination and balance of both dependent on their context is critical in the management of ADHD.

Clarity without action is a problem and action without clarity is also a problem.

Metaphorically speaking, medications give you the fuel to go somewhere, and counseling helps you to know where you want to go and/or where you have to go!