Oftentimes, menopause is treated as the punchline to a joke, a gag in a sitcom, or maybe just something no one talks about. These negative messages are very detrimental to many women. They can leave people feeling isolated, alone, and confused. But it does not have to be that way. So, what is menopause, what does it mean for our mental health, and what can we do about it?
The gold-standard therapy approach for clients who want to learn to manage their ADHD symptoms is Executive Functioning Coaching. Sometimes people think that this term means that only individuals who are professionals in executive-level jobs are appropriate for this therapy. That is a common misunderstanding. Executive Functioning in this instance actually refers to the specific parts of the brain and the tasks associated with them that the therapy addresses. ADHD generally involves abilities that are grouped together under the title Executive Functioning, which is a fancy way of referring to the following types of tasks: sustaining attention and avoiding distraction, committing day-to-day information to memory and being able to recall it later, organizing and following through with assignments and projects, regulating intense emotions, and fitting in socially with peers and colleagues.
PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This diagnosis only occurs after someone has been exposed to a traumatic experience, such as threatened death, serious injury, or sexual assault. Witnessing someone’s else’s actual or threatened death can also result in PTSD, as can repeated exposure to trauma details (such as a journalist reporting on war or a social worker hearing details of child abuse). Some examples of traumatic events include combat, natural disasters like tornadoes or hurricanes, man-made disasters like bombings, childhood abuse, intimate partner violence, and serious accidents. Estimates indicate that about 70% of American adults have experienced some type of traumatic event at least once in their lives.