You can imagine depression and anxiety as a book full of chapters (“the story of your life”) while ADHD is a long book full of empty pages without any words and whose pages are broken and torn apart. It’s a book you cannot read, and thus, can’t work with in therapy.

depression is a narcissistic illness because it is not open to the uncertainty of the Other and its desire.

Kierkegaard famously said that anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Cognitive Therapy has often framed thoughts as the cause of emotions. Emotions found in anxiety and depression are thought to be generated by logically fallacious thoughts which, once corrected, would have a positive effect on one’s emotional state. But it often misses the reverse process in which thoughts appear as a retroactive justification... See more