My takeaway from witnessing a friends journey between imcompetent doctors, side effect heavy antidepressants and increasingly whacky other depression treatment methods:
When ADHD is the actual root cause, leaving it unacknowledged (and untreated) will achieve nothing and cause unnecessary harm.
Well I feel attacked on a personal level. I mean I'm weird in some way, but no diagnose beasides hyperactive.
Yep. That last panel especially for me. I have no diagnoses either, this meme just cuts real deep on multiple levels.
Getting a first diagnosis took me about 10 minutes. I’m in Canada, and we have a doctor available one day a week at the office. After a 10min discussion he gave me a prescription and with some trial and error we found the right dose of concerta to use.
Lucky you... getting an appointment with a specialist (a GP wouldn't suffice) currently takes upwards of 6 months in this part of the world. And that's just for diagnosis - no prescriptions.
That last one hits to close to home.
This does make sense as every little bit I manage to improve on re: ADHD significantly improves my mindstate. I have an appointment to discuss meds next week and I'm hoping they're able to help, even if it's not with meds.
Wait, I have ADHD?
I can totally relate
To be fair, this is not just ADHD, but a curse of the digital age. Learning how to talk to people not in a digital capacity is like a muscle that will atrophy without practice.
The last one: You are trying to migrate someone to Linux, or a newer, superior software or hardware configuration.
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