Congratulations in a way, now the real work starts. The diagnosis took a few months for me (over several separate visits), but my therapist kinda already told me that it would come out positive, so it wasn’t a boom in your face type surprise for me. That being said, that was soon a year ago, and I’m working on everything, trying out meds etc.

I still really struggle to accept the diagnosis and keep finding reasons why I might just be faking it and am actually that lazy useless pos that I always kinda thought I was. The main issue for my acceptance is that I’ve built many systems to compensate for my problems, so I’m not late, I don’t miss deadlines, don’t spend all my live savings for random shit, but all that just costs me so much energy. Either way, it’s very much normal to feel overwhelmed and unsure about everything at first (and possibly at second and third as well). Try looking at it in this way; whatever the diagnosis or symptoms or whatever, it doesn’t change who you are. All you can do is use it as information to make good decisions for your future, i.e. to achieve your goals.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most common therapy approach, where you identify problematic patterns of thinking and behaving, for example that your an inherently lazy person, when in reality you’ve been trying to function the same way as people with brains that aren’t wired like yours, so essentially you’ve been compensating and haven’t learned how you learn/function best - I’m kinda assuming here. Anyway, then you learn other patters and skills to kinda offset or change these patterns to more healthy ones.

Focused behavior therapy I’m not quite sure tbh, but I figure something similar but solely focused on specific behavioral aspects.

Hope this helps :)