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Why do they have to make this such a pain in the ass? They are trying so hard to restrict abusers that it makes it almost impossible to get treatment if you act
by metalforever 6y ago
Why do they have to make this such a pain in the ass? They are trying so hard to restrict abusers that it makes it almost impossible to get treatment if you actually have ADHD. Do you know what people with ADHD do? Forget to make appointments because they got distracted. Essentially the system is set up to be hostile to ADHD sufferers to actually get help . I ended up having to pay concierge mental health to consistently be able to fill this script. The doctors would sometimes refuse to see me because of this diagnosis, and the pharmacies would lie to me that they were out of the medication and to come back on x date. If I do this they just repeat the same statement and choose a different random day. This was so much trouble that I spent years without treatment and it affected my life terribly. I did things like cause 10s of thousands of dollars in damages to apartments due to Inattention, almost getting myself fired, driving extremely poorly, almost failing out of school. This condition is preventing me from doing things I really want to do with my life because theres a wall of motivation I have to get over, even for things I enjoy.
- lonelappde 6y agoWhy would doctors and pharmacists refuse to serve you? What's their incentive?
- pnw_hazor 6y agoLegal liability or the general threat of having to expose themselves to additional scrutiny of government agents. If a government agent determines that the doc is over-prescribing they can get into big trouble. It is because of the US Opioid crisis, but the regulations are directed toward all controlled substances, not just oxycodone.
- verst 6y agoI sometimes forget to take my ADHD medication on several days and only realize after the fact that I was very unproductive. My friends will also notice that my mind was more cluttered again. I dive from tangentially related thing to the next, only connected in my mind by emotion. Eventually I reach a stack overflow - I'll have no idea how the conversation started or what the real topic or task were.
- dboreham 6y agoIt isn't very effective if it allows you to forget to take it.
- alharith 6y agoYou can still suffer from the same, every day normal forgetting of things on ADHD medication. It doesn't instantly make you superhuman. You still need systems to remember things effectively, ADHD or not.
- barsonme 6y agothat's like saying pain medication isn't very effective if you just hurt again afterwards. it is somewhat ironic that you have to remember to take something that helps you remember to do things.