also adhd meds. we need you to fill out this multipage questionnaire and get your parents to fill out a different longer one. then you need to send them back and follow up on scheduling an appointment to talk with a specialist to tell them all the same stuff. but if your answers are too close to the ideal or if you mention stimulants at any point during your assessment we will assume youre faking it for drugs. if you make it past that we will try to get you to use a planner before we give you the shitty nonstimulant drug that maybe doesnt work at all but it takes like 6 months for us to figure that out. if you then finally get approved for stimulants you are only allowed to be prescribed a one month supply with no refills, so you have to come back every month to get a new prescription. but maybe your pharmacy doesnt have it so you need to wait until they do, or randomly try other pharmacies and hope because maybe they dont have it either and you arent allowed to ask if they do before hand. oh and hopefully you never move or need to switch psychiatrists because then we will make you go through all of this again and maybe refuse to give you the same prescription because that sounds like a high dose you dont need that much. have you tried the nonstimulant drug that probably does nothing? stimulants are addictive you know.
I went years without being medicated after I was pretty sure I needed it and got with a mental health provider.
Apparently the fact that my wife’s questionnaire answers were like 1% too optimistic, and the fact that I did really well on the short term memory and mental math questions in person (hyper-focus due to performance anxiety driven by Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, anyone?) with their psychologist meant I was fine and just needed to work on my anxiety that kept me from getting things done.
also adhd meds. we need you to fill out this multipage questionnaire and get your parents to fill out a different longer one. then you need to send them back and follow up on scheduling an appointment to talk with a specialist to tell them all the same stuff. but if your answers are too close to the ideal or if you mention stimulants at any point during your assessment we will assume youre faking it for drugs. if you make it past that we will try to get you to use a planner before we give you the shitty nonstimulant drug that maybe doesnt work at all but it takes like 6 months for us to figure that out. if you then finally get approved for stimulants you are only allowed to be prescribed a one month supply with no refills, so you have to come back every month to get a new prescription. but maybe your pharmacy doesnt have it so you need to wait until they do, or randomly try other pharmacies and hope because maybe they dont have it either and you arent allowed to ask if they do before hand. oh and hopefully you never move or need to switch psychiatrists because then we will make you go through all of this again and maybe refuse to give you the same prescription because that sounds like a high dose you dont need that much. have you tried the nonstimulant drug that probably does nothing? stimulants are addictive you know.
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Very happy Adderall user here.
I went years without being medicated after I was pretty sure I needed it and got with a mental health provider.
Apparently the fact that my wife’s questionnaire answers were like 1% too optimistic, and the fact that I did really well on the short term memory and mental math questions in person (hyper-focus due to performance anxiety driven by Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, anyone?) with their psychologist meant I was fine and just needed to work on my anxiety that kept me from getting things done.