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