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.world
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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.