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Many neurodivergent mental health professionals know the experience all too well.

On any given workday, it can feel as though everyone else’s ducks are neatly in a row while yours are squirrels at a rave.

For therapists, counselors, social workers, trainees, and associates navigating late-diagnosed ADHD, the struggle is often largely invisible. You may have spent years, or even decades, working twice as hard as the people around you while keeping your cognitive challenges hidden.

From the outside, you may appear organized, capable, clinically composed, and even high-achieving.

Internally, however, you may be running a sustained cognitive marathon just to survive rigid expectations of professionalism.

The mental health field is reaching a critical point. Demand for behavioral health services continues to rise, yet many of the systems that train and employ clinicians are poorly designed for the neurodivergent professionals providing that care.....

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by Tyler Suran and Unamasked Career Lab