First of all, I know that ADHD diagnosis is a long process.
But I’m wondering can a psychiatrist diagnosis someone with ADHD who also has been diagnosed with depression and GAD (still untreated)
Could this make a diagnosis a lot harder?
I really want to talk my psychiatrist to get me tased for ADHD
I was diagnosed with ADD when I was still very depressed and moderately anxious, and untreated for all. Since there are some behavioral side effects in common between them, it can be harder to tell what is the primary cause. However, Psychiatrists are trained to identify disorders and rule out other possibilities. I was referred to a doctor who specializes in diagnoses, who did a full day test with me to ensure he was making the correct diagnoses.
To some degree, I think if your gut is telling you to get tested, I would at least try. At best, you have a new way of understanding yourself and options for treatment. If it turns out you don't have ADHD, you at least know and can move on with treatments designed for your needs. But if you're looking through symptoms of ADHD or listening to stories of people who have it and how it affects them, and it feels like it's ringing true for you, it's worth at least asking about.
That being said, I restarted medication for Anxiety and ADD recently, and it has honestly been a bit of a struggle to get the medication cocktail right. I had some anxiety and depression through the process that I wasn't having before, but after a couple months it is getting much better. Some days, it felt like the ADD meds were making my anxiety worse. The anxiety and depression definitely makes my head foggier, memory worse, distractability high, etc -- all those signs of ADD. I'm not saying this to make you scared, just to recommend talking with your doctor about timing of adding new meds, and possible side effects. Especially if you are unable to get tested right away -- if you get a better handle on the depression and anxiety and still have ADHD symptoms, it becomes a little clearer.
If you have friends or family who can support you through the process (however that looks), it was definitely crucial to me to tell them what was going on and let them help me. Best of luck!
It is possible to get diagnosed with multiple things, but sometimes that depends on the provider. Most want to deal with things like anxiety and depression first rather than doing it all at once. So, there's a chance they may delay a judgment on ADHD until later since symptoms of both depression and anxiety can appear like ADHD and impact it. In general, ADHD goes together with other mental health conditions quite often, but providers are reluctant to do too much all at once.
I'd say seek out a provider and let them know your concerns. See what their thoughts are on how to approach it. If they don't want to address the ADHD yet, ask them what timeline they'd like to follow in order to pursue it. Maybe they want you to focus on depression and anxiety for a few months, stay in therapy, and then assess. It depends a lot on the provider.
Nowadays, your requirement crashes against the culture and the system: several years ago neurology and psyquiatry were the same scientific field and the professionals within the neuropsyquiatry were involved in wider scope of the brain- mind link. There is an increasing social voice asking the ADHD to be a neurological point into a wider spectra and multidimensional scopeª, but it will take time: if I were you, I would try a third way: ask your family doctor for a MRC ( magnetic resonance) and ask your psyquiatrist to involve a neurologist into the works for a proper diagnosis: there is consistent consensus on the fact that ADHD has deep links with two elements belonging to the field of core neurology:
the pression that skull push on the neocortex [1] and the gradient that funds up this as a desease ( the size of the brain, mass,and weigh) and secondly the involvement of key gens that code SNCA protein, APP protein and, seldom the cr09orf72 - involved in motoneurologic deseases such as ALS and FTD( that is subfamily of Alzheimer desease that is statsical significance in the comorbility with ADD) - the point is that there is much more knowledge on the genomics of Deficit of Attention and this characteristic provides the object with a thecnical dress up that most of the times it leads to the patient to be thrown up into the "neurologist den" instead of the "psyquiatrist one" but in the end, the culture so far have turned into the fact that 50percent of the labor collectives both of them share principels and beliefs. Under these grounds, I could try with a young psyquiatrist ( a millenial or a generation Z one) or quite the opposite - whatever it means that opposite) but you are struggling with the system and its culture, that is not an easy issue. BE SMART. (ª) when I say that the thecnical tone leads to the neurologist i don´t mean that the psyquiatrist is a profession of the twentieth century but the lenguage that grounds psyquiatry is from XIX century and the DSM IV makers are their first victims.
It can make it harder for you to tick hyperactive boxes if you're in a slump with depression which is why it took so long to get my diagnosis. I ended up telling my psychiatrist that I thought my depression was more of a symptom, of me dealing with ADHD in weird and bad ways and not understanding it, than the root cause of everything. Which is when I got the diagnosis
Yes. I was. At the ripe old age of 58. And the ADHD diagnosis was a marriage -saver, in addition to making coping with a lot of things a lot easier.
You can test yourself and even find out what type you have: there are at least 7 types. Amen MD you can get free testing and more. I would start there. It's fast and easy and free. From there you need to find a psychiatrist, psychologist or therapist who understands ADD well. Most just say they do because they took a class in it or read a book Some just think they know, but really don't.
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