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Can We Start Recognizing ADHD as an Actual and Serious Disorder
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Even accessing ADHD treatment can be extremely challenging, because stimulant medications are controlled substances and there are so many false and damaging perceptions about the condition and medications out there. And even when you have a well-established diagnosis and are well controlled on a medication you’ve taken for years, you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment. I personally am a white professional with good health insurance and was able to get diagnosed and medication prescribed - which in itself is often really difficult - but even from that position of privilege I have experienced multiple gaps in my treatment.
This short essay is one of the truest things I've ever read.
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ADHD medication is fairly mild in that it does what it's supposed to do and not much else, and there are no withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking it. Still, as the writer points out, "you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment." It's especially ridiculous to have to go through an absurd song and dance routine every four weeks or so in order to play the go-between between my doctor and my pharmacy, neither of whom can communicate properly. If life gets busy and I'm not able to spend a full week aggressively pressuring both parties into making the prescription refill happen, then I'm fucked, as it's impossible get enough medication to last the full month to begin with.
I wish you could sign up for something like a TSA Pre-Check certification for your medication. Like, can we all just acknowledge that I am an adult professional who is not going to make meth and behave accordingly, thank you.
The absurdities of my experiences with the healthcare system are one of the many reasons why I've stopped seeing "mental heath" as a discrete category separate from "physical health." As far as I'm concerned, the only difference is how the level of social stigma associated with certain conditions makes their effective treatment and management inaccessible.
https://lauramkaye.tumblr.com/post/629343179386306560/mutisija-anyways-can-we-start-recognizing-adhd
Even accessing ADHD treatment can be extremely challenging, because stimulant medications are controlled substances and there are so many false and damaging perceptions about the condition and medications out there. And even when you have a well-established diagnosis and are well controlled on a medication you’ve taken for years, you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment. I personally am a white professional with good health insurance and was able to get diagnosed and medication prescribed - which in itself is often really difficult - but even from that position of privilege I have experienced multiple gaps in my treatment.
This short essay is one of the truest things I've ever read.
( Read more... )
ADHD medication is fairly mild in that it does what it's supposed to do and not much else, and there are no withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking it. Still, as the writer points out, "you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment." It's especially ridiculous to have to go through an absurd song and dance routine every four weeks or so in order to play the go-between between my doctor and my pharmacy, neither of whom can communicate properly. If life gets busy and I'm not able to spend a full week aggressively pressuring both parties into making the prescription refill happen, then I'm fucked, as it's impossible get enough medication to last the full month to begin with.
I wish you could sign up for something like a TSA Pre-Check certification for your medication. Like, can we all just acknowledge that I am an adult professional who is not going to make meth and behave accordingly, thank you.
The absurdities of my experiences with the healthcare system are one of the many reasons why I've stopped seeing "mental heath" as a discrete category separate from "physical health." As far as I'm concerned, the only difference is how the level of social stigma associated with certain conditions makes their effective treatment and management inaccessible.
