Behavioral therapy is only needed to make people feel better about taking amphetamines. It takes only a very cursory review of published reputable papers to realize there's nothing behavioral therapy can do to improve ADHD because as Russell Barkley says ADHD is a disability of doing, not knowing what to do.

If medication alone has worked for you, that's great! But I don't think your opinion matches the medical consensus.

> For children with ADHD younger than 6 years of age, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends parent training in behavior management as the first line of treatment, before medication is tried.

> For children 6 years of age and older, the recommendations include medication and behavior therapy together—parent training in behavior management for children up to age 12 and other types of behavior therapy and training for adolescents. Schools can be part of the treatment as well. AAP recommendations also include adding behavioral classroom intervention and school supports. [1]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/treatment/index.html

Not true.

CBT works pretty well for adhd, studies are clear on this.

But medication seems even better, as does a combination of therapy and medication.

ADHD isn't unusual as far as the effectiveness of therapy, it's unusual in how well the medication is proven to work.