How do they expect people who are suspected of having ADHD to do all this paperwork for the assessment?? it’s like Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia being the fear of long words!!! WHO DECIDED THIS??

      • InvisibleShoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I don’t know. I just know that they provide assistance with navigating the diagnosis and paperwork.

        I don’t know what state OP is in but more and more states are allowing GPs to conduct diagnosis due to the huge backlog/waitlist there is for ADHD diagnosis(NSW, SA and I think QLD). The waitlist for public psychs is usually something crazy like 8-12 months. There is a big push to address the long and expensive diagnosis process.

        • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 days ago

          I think the issue with that second part is GPs are generally reluctant to be the ones responsible for that. My sister piggybacked off my diagnosis to get Adderall from our previous family dr and she seems to be able to get it consistently but I would never do it that way, I prefer having the gold standard diagnosis that cant be challenged or cutoff arbitrarily

          I dont live in Aussie by the way, just another commonwealth kid

          • InvisibleShoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 days ago

            My experience is that GPs vary wildly in quality of care but I do believe that there is pretty wide support from them to be able to provide diagnosis. The situation is now at a point that the backlog is overflowing into the hospital and mental health wards and putting more pressure on the already buckling healthcare system.

            I haven’t been diagnosed with ADHD but I was looking into it a few years ago and had a 9 month wait for an expensive psych. Found out it was a tumor causing my problems, so I didn’t move forward with the diagnosis.