Comment by disgruntledphd2

> 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).