Hi, lol. I'm about 99% sure I have ADHD and am waiting for a call to schedule an appointment to discuss the evaluation I had for ADHD about 2 weeks ago.
The struggle to get a diagnosis is beyond aggravating. I could rant about it forever, unfortunately. I've been trying to get in for an evaluation for four years, and kept getting hit with "your depression/dissociative symptoms will make it difficult to diagnose ADHD accurately" meanwhile, they'd been treating the supposed depression for years without any improvement (and ignoring the dissociation until one of the department heads stepped in and got me in with a trauma specialist, thanks, L.)
My gratitude to the therapists I've had who actually listen to me and look at the facts that I present rather than assumptions and feeling they have is indescribable. The people who have genuinely listened to me helped me push forward despite all the struggling and fighting. I feel it necessary to include my gratitude to them while I'm also feeling all this anger and hurt at their colleagues who seemingly refused to consider other angles.
So, uh, yeah. Currently waiting to hear about my results. I'm assuming I'm going to be diagnosed with the combined subtype, since that strongly matches my symptoms, that's what my sister was diagnosed with, and while my mother is not diagnosed, it lines up with how her behavior presents. Part of my therapy homework was to find an ADHD support group, and so here I am. Never been the best at forum type settings but hoping to find some community here.
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Hooray for gratitude! Waiting two weeks to schedule a call to discuss the results of an evaluation sounds miserable and unnecessarily frustrating, especially after you have been waiting for four years for the evaluation. Best wishes to you.
It'll be three weeks this coming Friday and it's definitely frustrating. I'm genuinely just relieved the evaluation was done, honestly. Hoping to get the call soon.And even if it's not ADHD, despite so much evidence pointing to that? I'm assuming the evaluation will shine some light on my extremely ADHD-like symptoms and I'll be on another path trying to figure out what's going on. Something has to have come from all this observing and failing and fighting, so I just have to wait and hope, I guess. Thanks for the good wishes!
I have no medical training, although unfortunately too much experience dealing with so-called medical experts at this point. Even if the ADHD evaluation and the relevant professional that makes the, in my limited understanding, somewhat subjective interpretation of that evaluation finds that you do not have ADHD, that does not mean any more than that on that day that probably seriously overworked professional made a judgement call. Another psychiatrist or medical professional could very likely make a different subject call, so if possible, and if not possible now, perhaps in the future, it seems like it might be worth exploring find ing a new psychiatrist/insurance/more supportive system. Things are challenging because many people with ADHD have other serious comorbidities, I was told, mistakenly im my opinion, that I have anxiety and depression, and after a fight managed to get a different psychiatrist to agree that I did not have depression or anxiety and to remove those diagnoses. (I have also been dealing with a number of other cognitive, vision, and other challenges.) I like you line above about soon being another path. It sounds like perhaps in addition to gratitude you have some Stoicism going for you. I love books, even though I struggle to read for a number of reasons, but Ryan Holidays The Obstacle is the Way is high on my list. Best of luck with the fighting in particular!
Just a relevant point here. Uh ... Many psychiatrists will diagnose you without some long three-hour evaluation. They might want a first session that is longer than usual. But understand that a diagnosis from place X isn't treated as God's word with psychiatrist Dr. Y.
Really you could just show up at a good psychiatrist's office and report your symptoms and go from there.
I will say this: one of the benefits of the long formal evaluation and all is that WE accept our condition, we come to terms with it. And at the start of treatment, I realize that can be quite helpful. My diagnosing psychologist gave me a form to fill out in her office and she gave me the results right then and there. No elaborate expensive evaluation. My first treating psychiatrist gave me a ten-question form that took about 5 minutes to fill out.
So even if the evaluation comes back "negative," you can still schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist and go from there.
That is really helpful to know, thank you. I know my current insurance is kind of hellish and going to a psychiatrist and just. Talking about it wasn't an option. I'll keep this in mind if it comes back "negative," especially since I'm aware of how biased they've been for the past 4 years. I feel that frustration in me of the "why am I here all but fist fighting department heads just to have ADHD considered" but at the very least I'm almost free from that. Thank you again. <
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