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I wish I could afford therapy.

My health insurance only pays for 2 psych vists/y. This is in “socialist utopia” W-EUR.

We shouldn’t mock the US healthcare system, ours is only marginally better.

You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.

I hate this entire world and every human being on it, and my parents most of all for bringing me into it.

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The difference is less that it’s in some circumstances only marginally better. Rather, it’s more that when you advocate for better coverage in EU, the pushback might be more along the lines of “that’s too expensive or an inefficient use of highly limited taxpayer dollars, but I’m open to continuing to evaluate the impact and economics of it”. In the US, sometimes the pushback is “you don’t like it? Then GTFO, you communist traitor!”

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You wanna know something cool though? If I was alcoholic instead of depressed, I could get help for free.

Okay? It’s objectively a good thing for alcoholics to get help. Getting equal care for other issues is the goal.

Don’t be a crab in the bucket.

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This might be a bit sensitive of a question to ask, but what country are you in? Because I’ve lived in several western European countries and the access to healthcare wildly varies between them. Especially countries that’ve “enjoyed” a multitude of conservative/right wing governments over the past three decades seem to have really embraced enshittifying healthcare access and affordability while pushing an American-style private system as the “solution”.

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Flanders, Belgium. We’ve been ruled by right-wing austerity hawks for a good decade now, so you hit the nail on the head.

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I’m sorry to hear that. And yes, it’s depressing to see these “privitization will save us all” types destroy public services using the same old playbook of “defund, defund, defund, point out the issues after decades of defunding, then start to slow-roll private options until the public service has been fully hollowed out” everywhere.

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A psychologist/psychiatrist is not a therapist, it’s a very different pay grade.

A therapist will usually consult with a psychologist to get you recommendations, and will help you work through your ADHD. It may take a couple of attempts to get a good one, though.

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I’ve been on all kinds of medications from age 7 to 26.

Ritallin sped up my heart and I couldn’t keep up in gym class because I was constantly catching my breath.

Concerta/dexadrine took away my appetite. One bite every meal, then I was full. I was pathetically skinny and got called anorexic all the time.

Straterra made me tired and drousy all day, I was sexually frustrated because my dick would REFUSE to get hard, and then I would wake up at night, not being able to sleep.

I’m 31 and madication free for 6 years, and have learned to overcome my ADHD on my own. Never swallowing a other ADHD pill again, fuck that shit entirely.

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Yeah, fuck life changing medication! White knuckle it like a true american.

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Yeah, fuck life changing side effects! White knuckle it like a true american.

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My point wasn’t that people shouldn’t do what’s right for them. It was that for many people these medications make a huge difference and without them they they might find themselves suffering from things like depression, anxiety, isolation, etc.

That’s prob beyond you, tho.

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I’m not American

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the ritalin issue was probably salt and mineral / vitamin deficency. yeah, you need to eat before taking concerta, people just dont listen ;-)

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dont think thats the main issue here

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I took the concerta with my cereal before school as prescribed by my doctor. Lunch I was able to get down my pb&j, but dinner was impossible past the second or third bite

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exactly what i went through, everything tastes like cardboard.

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12 points

Glad you got it under control without the pills that made you feel bad. Happy for you

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6 points

Thank you!

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Oh yeah, three hours of high school swim practice and seven of school without a bite to eat on Concerta. Awful. And I’d stay up til 3 am every night with vyvanse. I’d consider trying something else but I’m 0-2.

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I’ve been on Adderall and Vyvanse for ADHD and binge eating disorder.

The Vyvanse helps a ton with the binges. My doc had suggested I try Concerta if I’m having a hard time finding Vyvanse this month. I was able to find Vyvanse but I had no idea appetite suppression could be so much in the Concerta. Probably way easier than finding/taking any of those fashionable diet injectables. And generic Vyvanse still gets on backorder…

Maybe I’ll bring up trying that next time.

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Do it, if you have a problem with binge eating it could do you wonders. I’m the opposite, even off meds I’ve always had a hard time gaining weight no matter how much I eat. It’s probably the beetus that will get me with how much junk I munch on every time I use cannabis lol. I’m 6’2 170lbs

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You dont need to gain weight

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why do you need to gain weight??? what you describe is a good functioning metabolism. only thing you can do is eat more protein and train to put on muscle, you will not gain fat until you purpoesfully break your metabolism.

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the meds help with managing your feelings, thats what you did with binge eating. scientists discuss how binge eating and adhd are realated.

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The link is pretty interesting. Apparently a lot of eating disorders can be related to ADHD…namely BED, anorexia, and bulimia.

With BED, supposedly it’s about instant gratification. That’s likely why a lot of people binge on a specific type of food…like sweets or saltys. Some of it can even be an OCD behavior.

I do wish it was given nearly the same attention as the other eating disorders. It wasn’t even until a couple of years ago that I heard of it and the specific markers (like eating well past being full, or binging in secret). But most people have never heard of it because “har har fat person”.

This is also why I believe obesity should often be handled as a symptom of mental distress, not something that exists in a vacuum.

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4 points

How do you cope?

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11 points

mountains of powerful cannabis and cheap coffee

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4 points

Cope with what exactly?

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5 points

Having to function in current society with ADHD I presume

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I feel that. Without caffeine and anger I would just be a sad, highly compressed ball of sadness and stress and sadness.

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28 points

I’m in this comment and I dont like it

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14 points

It’s not just you, don’t take all the credit

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5 points

I don’t get angry, just anxious. I AM that ball of sadness and stress.

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2 points

Have you tried looking for a wizard to ponder you?

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Did they go to wizard college or did they conserve their V I T A L E S S E N C E for 30 years?

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I’m pretty much in this camp.

I’ve tried some of the stimulant treatments, but they leave me feeling completely wrung out by the end of my shift. And being on that stuff for more than 12+ hours just seems like a recipe for heart disease.

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doesnt work for shit without eating. people also are on way to high dosage. well, it does work, but it really takes a toll if you are not eating right.

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37 points

This post is forgetting the alcohol

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24 points

Gotta calm the nerves some how

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25 points

Did someone say weed?

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Alcohol makes me angry at the world. Weed glues me to the couch.

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