Why Therapy Fails Autistic & ADHD People! (And How To ACTUALLY Heal) | Dr Judith Mohring

Dr Judith Mohring is an award winning Cambridge-educated psychiatrist and psychotherapist specialising in ADHD, autism and mental health. In this episode, she explores why understanding yourself doesn’t always lead to healing, how overthinking can become a form of emotional avoidance, and what it really takes to reconnect with yourself after years of masking.

Chapters:

00:00 Trailer

02:13 “I don’t know who I really am”

03:54 Why understanding yourself doesn’t always lead to healing

08:09 Why you can understand your brain and still feel trapped

10:15 When analysing yourself stops you feeling

12:06 Analysing emotions vs processing them

16:34 Why ADHD can make therapy harder

19:26 Why ADHD brains analyse themselves so deeply

23:07 When hyperfocus turns inward

24:32 How masking disconnects you from yourself

28:21 Tiimo advert 

29:49 Why years of therapy can leave you feeling the same

31:17 When therapy becomes another intellectual exercise

35:41 Where does healing actually begin?

36:33 Interoception: learning to feel what’s happening inside

38:59 How a therapist helps you feel safe

40:25 How ADHD and autistic people begin to heal

46:01 How to stop analysing and start feeling

47:18 How do you know if you’re healing?

49:09 The Washing Machine of Woes

49:52 Finding yourself after decades of masking

51:02 Do you find your true self — or create it?

53:00 Is overthinking a form of emotional avoidance?

54:05 A letter to my younger self

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Producer: Timon Woodward 

Recorded by: Hamlin Studios

Trailer editor: Ryan Faber

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