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I heavily suspect that it's overdiagnosed in the US, but heavily underdiagnosed in the EU. I have adult ADHD, and even though I tried to get help when I was tu
by j-pb 6y ago
I heavily suspect that it's overdiagnosed in the US, but
heavily underdiagnosed in the EU.
I have adult ADHD, and even though I tried to get help when I was turning 20 and started to fail university (I had an average of 1.3 for the classes that I did finnish, I just couldn't commit to anything) it took me 3 years until I got a diagnosis (due to ridiculously long waiting times for doctors appointments).
In the end I only got a doctors appointment because I got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and my neurologist, who is also a psychyatrist was like "btw I also think you have ADHD, ever tried to get help for that?".
- luckylion 6y ago> due to ridiculously long waiting times for doctors appointments This is amazing to me. I've never seen as bad of a situation as with neurologists/psychiatrists. I called some a while ago and it was essentially either "we don't do any new patients" or "yeah, we have a wait list, if a spot opens up, we'll call everyone and the first person to answer gets it; expect it to take half a year though". Unless it's an emergency, you just won't even get to see a doctor.
- kayodelycaon 6y agoIt took me two months to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Many of them never returned calls. I had to leave a lot of voice mails while having severe anxiety using phones.
- nullserver 6y agoNeurologist was the one me try adderall. I have autoimmune disorder Sjogrens, but didn’t know it at the time. At time it felt like he was trying random things to see what helped. It was amazing for focus and energy. Enough that I could work for a time. Course it left me in horrific agony most of the time.