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[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

We all know the medical system is flawed and adopts a paternalist / validist approach to neurodiversity (not to mention straight up corruption by big pharma). I don't want to fetishize self-diagnostic, but if I went to my doctor to say "I'm depressed", nobody will doubt my experience, so why would it be any difference for neurodivergence.

Put simply, a large cohort of mental health providers will look at anyone asking about ADHD as if they are lying and just fishing for a prescription for stimulants. Especially if you look like you're college age. So if you get unlucky with who you see when you finally go to get tested they might just take one look at you and decide "This person is looking for drugs" and ignore literally everything you present with because of it.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

And the rest of that cohort will blindly oblige as big pharma's paying for their holiday. I have no trust in psychiatrists tbh

Ah yes, because it's totally impossible that medication can help people with ADHD cope with a world that was set up for them to fail.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's not what i said. I'm fully aware ADHD meds allows some people to simply function, even regardless of the environment.

That being said, it'd be naive to think pharma companies aren't bribing psychiatrists on a daily basis. Medicalizing neurodivergence is problematic in its own right.

Come on buddy we're all friends here, don't sarcasm me, please :)

Then think about what you're saying. If you actually believe that medication can be helpful, but then you go around saying things that can be easily misconstrued as "Half of them will ignore you, and the other half are shills for big pharma you shouldn't trust them," how can those two things coexist? How can you not see that those words are going to lead to people just deciding against even attempting to get on medication even if they might be among the group that it helps to not suffer in a society built around the convenience and function of neurotypicals?

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe we could give benzos for free so the woman can bare sexism.

So you don't actually believe that medication can help people with ADHD at all, got it. There's no other reason for you to make a disingenuous comparison like that. You can just say it, you aren't going to hurt my feelings hon.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unlike you, i'm not trying to hurt anybody's feeling. You deeply hurt mine though, and you clearly don't care. I tried to be nice to you and you kept being hurtful.

You're just a mean person buddy. Nothing to do with pills or mental disease.

[-] toad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Did that occur to you that medication isn't for everybody? I've been prescribed pills and I felt terrible.

There's nothing to be misconstructed. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/193nmt1/142_million_in_undisclosed_conflicts_of_interest/

It's the truth.

There's a difference between "it's not for everybody," and "half of them can't be trusted and the other half won't believe you."

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