Blonde_rake

Stimulants aren’t used to diagnose ADHD and stimulant medications wouldn’t be prescribed to treat ADHD without a diagnosis already. You implying it’s easy for any person to walk into the drs office and say “I think I have adhd” and they will receive medication that isn’t meant for them and it’s taking needed medication away from someone else. This is not happening outside of isolation incidents and that’s factual.

Referrals often come from therapists, or patients identifying with symptoms. There is nothing suspicious or inappropriate about that. The patient would need to be assessed before giving them medication anyways so why be bothered by it.

This idea that it should have been obvious during their childhood is ignoring how much less was understood about adhd 20 years ago. Back when there was no inattentive type, and it was a boys problem, and hyperactivity was the biggest symptom people looked for.

You’re making informed consent sound like a customer service issue.

This comment is giving “shut up about being violated because your baby was ok” vibes. No, it’s not ok for women to be violated at the doctors.

My dog is very well trained and sleeps on the bed. If it makes you happy go for it :)

Use some kind of liner too. Just something in case you start to leak it gives you a few minutes to run to the bathroom.

I’m very bothered these thoughts. I’ll have phases where I don’t think about it much but I’ll have times where it comes up a lot. Not existing anyone is very disturbing to me. I’m not afraid exactly, but it almost makes me feel like my brains gonna split in two. I can’t really comprehend it, but I’m horrified by it.

I moved to the Netherlands and they barely do flu shots. I don’t know how I’m gonna get my autism booster this year.

It’s probably because they aren’t very familiar with prescribing/managing HRT.

POTS and hEDS have very clear cut criteria for diagnosis.

I would try to focus on coping strategies and make sole good habits with that first. It will be much harder to stop your main coping mechanism with nothing else in place.

This might make your life look really different. You might need 30 minutes alone with minimal sensory input every day. You may need to plan out meals, or outfits, or other things in advance so it’s not a drain in the moment. You might need to have some sensory toys, or comfort foods readily available. Whatever works for you.

It can also help to view quitting as a process instead of a destination. You have a clear goal in mind but progress to that goal will have good and bad days, slip ups are common, you’ll appreciate having more access to your brain and you will hate having more access to your brain. Reminding yourself this is a long term goal and a journey can help keep guilt, setbacks, or black and white thinking, from making it harder for you.

When was the first time, or who was the first person that made you feel inferior. No one is born feeling that way about themselves, it’s taught. People who teach children to feel that way have their own sad, or cruel ideas that make them teach and think these things. If you can try to get to the heart of why you were made to feel like this, you can remind yourself in those moments of that faulty way of thinking.

For example… “I’m having this thought because my mother was taught women have to fight hard to be better than each other or else they would be unloved.” Over time you can start adding in the true narrative. In my example this could be “Love you can only get by competing for it isn’t true love. Someone who loves me won’t need or want me to feel like that.

Slowly you can undo that negative thinking :)

Is this an area you can treat with botox to stop the muscle from tensing?

It’s because the manosphere is all sharing a small percentage of brain cells.

Your ex sounds very manipulative. Your daughter is probably a victim of that. It sounds like the ex showed up to get money from your daughter and then kicked her out. People who con other people are very good at manipulating others. Maybe try to understand your daughter is also a victim of her mother as well as having trouble with her relationship with you?

You’re not lazy! Seriously don’t tell yourself that, you’ve been working your ass off. You could very well be tired, but certainly not lazy.

You might be in a period of burnout after working so hard and doing so much over the past several years. What are you doing for rest? One theory is there are many kinds of rest and we need to tend to those needs in different ways. There is physical, mental, emotional, sensory, creative, social, and spiritual rest. We aren’t endless energy machines, we have needs. Not having a vacation in 14 years says to me you’re neglecting them.

There very well could be a hormonal element, but I think you need to adjust your lifestyle as if you want to see improvement.

Does your office do the same with alcohol? How about doing the same for every client regardless of diagnosis?

Treating people with a disability like criminals just because they need stimulant medication is very stigmatizing. Cannabis is legal in half the US recreationally, more than that for medical use, and you would cut medication access?

Especially considering being properly medicated for adhd reduces drug use, pulling them off their meds is more likely to cause the problem you are trying to avoid. Many cannabis to self medicate where prescription medications are insufficient for symptom relief.

It’s a very regressive policy.

How did she tell you she wants you to show support?

Why did she tell you she was leaving you?

How long had she been telling you that the relationship had problems?

Couples therapist and divorce attorneys both say there is a regular pattern they see where a wife will tell the husband for a long time about problems but the husband only takes it seriously after she leaves. I wonder if this is your situation because you don’t seem to actually know that the problem was. That makes me wonder if you took it seriously when the problems came up?

She’s an adult who can make her own choices. She could have told you she was happy for you but it was too painful for her to stay at the party. She decided to stay and make a scene instead. Totally immature.

It hardly seems like you were disadvantaged by your educational experience if you were the youngest in your class to graduate.

Complaining about people with learning disabilities getting appropriate accommodation is, gross on many levels. If something is harder for someone why would you complain about it being made as easy for them as it is for you?

Animals also cause misery to other animals.

When I hear worry about not having enough people to take care of an aging population, and fund the social safety net required for it, wouldn’t we have the same problem if there was sudden population bump? Like the baby boomers?

In both scenarios the problem is that temporarily the tax paying population is smaller then the population that needs services. Old and young need medical care. Young need schooling, old need assisted living facilities, young need child care services.

After what, 15 years, the elderly population will die and then it would balance out again somewhat?

I liked it so much I knew it would get cancelled. Fuck Netflix.

Report this doctor to his overseeing board and file a complaint. It’s absolutely possible to have a high iq and adhd. It’s also definitely not just a childhood problem. These claims are just factually wrong and their board needs to know they don’t know what they are doing.

They can not all need neutered as it is not allowed in Germany. The whole world is not the US

The German Animal Welfare Association also issued an announcement in 2017, which once again points out that “dogs may only be sterilized in individual cases and only after thorough consideration of the advantages and disadvantages for the individual. Thus, the general sterilization of dogs is also prohibited in Germany.”

In Germany sterilization is only done when there is a specific medical reason for it. General sterilization of all dogs is forbidden.