It’s really starting to hit me now. All those years I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t deliberately obstructive. I wasn’t thoughtless. I wasn’t careless. I wasn’t a deliberate arsehole.
My neurology literally wouldn’t let me slow down, do stuff, talk quieter, not interrupt, not go from 0 to “temper tantrum” in 2 seconds, remember where I put the thing I was holding 1 second ago. Not want to end people for talking too slowly.
One pill fixes it all. One sodding pill.
51 years.
There’s more grieving to come here, I think. A lot more.
And no, everyone is NOT “a little bit ADHD”. You have no bloody idea.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •It was 40 years for me but exactly the same shit.
After that I took my kid to a psychiatrist to get him tested as well and she was like "Your son has a very severe case of ADHD and definately needs medication!" and all I see in him is myself back in the 80s. Exactly myself. I must have been the same "very severe" case. But instead of medication, information and behavioral therapy, all I got was bullshit that started with "You just have to..."
But sure, everyone is "a little bit ADHD" 😩. I wish people knew what saying this does to people like you, me and kids like my son.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I'm almost too scared to give it a try, in case I spend a load of money and they say no.
Why yes, I do have trust issues
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in reply to Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ • •@Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ So I had a really good experience with ADHD360.
Zoe, on the other hand, got a trainee and had a terrible one and switched to Dr Dutta at Berkeley and I sat in on her consultation and she was utterly lovely.
Have you done an ASRS self evaluation? If you're ticking loads of grey boxes, they aren't telling you that you don't have it.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •@Ghost of Hope 🏳️⚧️ Just remember, nobody in your family has cardiac issues. You do not do substance abuse. You have never borrowed someone else's prescription medicine.
Because of course you wouldn't do those things.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Truthful answers: My father has CHF in his 80s. I drink too much, but nothing illegal (I don't remember the 90s, cough). I actually never have!
Do I need to be evasive about these?
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They will get weird if they think you might have cardiac issues.
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