When Optimism Backfires: Understanding ADHD, Over-Optimistic Thinking, and Time Blindness

When clients come to therapy, we often work on addressing negative thought patterns. We work on noticing negative thought patterns and changing them. We do this by using cognitive reframing or challenging. For example, a thought could be, “I am going to fail my test tomorrow,” we may look at re-framing it to something like, […]