alt Hacker News>But cognitive behavioral therapy does not work by itself for ADHD.
But it does exactly that. There have been enough studies about this. CBT and medication combined improved faster, but CBT alone catches up in a few months. E.g. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/108705471667119... or this study here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31280035/
>Stimulants are the gold standard treatment.
I'm not arguing that they don't help, but CBT also increases other metrics, e.g. self esteem, acceptance, self-efficacy, and so on.
> I'm not arguing that they don't help, but CBT also increases other metrics, e.g. self esteem, acceptance, self-efficacy, and so on.
I was recently diagnosed, and am on stimulants, which are definitely helpful.
That being said, I'd been going to therapy for about six years (currently winding that down), and I have to say that the therapy alone definitely helped with lots of the emotional/childhood stuff that I don't think would have been helped by medication alone.
I would be prone to believe that both therapy & medication are effective, and indeed my prescribing doctor called this out (although she focused on CBT, which is the easy one to test with controlled trials).