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As a long time lurker with a (self-diagnosed) ADHD I read quite a few comments telling people to seek treatment. Is the general consensus that the medication is
by shadeless 14y ago
As a long time lurker with a (self-diagnosed) ADHD I read quite a few comments telling people to seek treatment. Is the general consensus that the medication is necessary in treating ADHD?
(I'm not trying to avoid meds, just happen to live in a third world country where lack of focus and motivation is dismissed by psychiatrist as just laziness)
- groby_b 14y agoThe consensus is that it takes a (good) professional to decide if the medication is necessary. If you've got mild cases, there are many behavioral techniques that might help you. People in the thread here are sharing them. (Excercise, nutrition, list making, regular brain dumps, etc.) But once your ADD reaches a certain severity, those can't really get you back to fully functioning. Psychiatrists are _supposed_ to help you find out if you're past that threshold, and they're also supposed to help you find mitigation techniques that work for you. Sad fact is that many psychiatrists, third-world or not, will not work for you. Not only do they need to be capable at their job in general, they need to be knowledgable about ADD, and you need to be able to connect with them, so things actually make sense. It's an arduous process finding the one psychiatrist who works for you