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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by Spivak on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:10PM (#27523754)
You clearly have never experienced medical gatekeeping. It can be really frustrating to be forced to change doctors or insurance and have to fight for years to continue the treatment regimen that actually works for you.

Your PCP is the tier-1 tech support of the medical world. They have basically zero specialized knowledge to evaluate different medications outside the brochure the sales rep gave them. There's a reason PCP's punt the responsibility for a diagnosis to a psychologist and then play the game of "spin the wheel of stimulants" to find something that both alleviates their symptoms and has tolerable side-effects. Having to go through the process all again for no reason other than weird politics or a doctor on a power-trip is the worst.

Ugh.

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by dkdk8283 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:50PM (#27524004)
Rather presumptive to think I haven’t been through the medical system or ran into bad doctors. My experiences will be left as an exercise to the reader.

You get medical records sent and see multiple doctors until one is aware of your ailment. Strategizing on how to lie is unacceptable to me. Happy to agree to disagree on this one.

If one of my reports used work resources to collude for substance abuse I would do everything I can to fire them.

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by Spivak on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:04PM (#27524085)
So "lying to get a treatment that alleviates the symptoms of their medical condition in a system that punishes honesty" is substance abuse now?

I literally wish every time I go to the doctor that stimulants didn't get non-ADHD people high so I wouldn't have to deal with this crap.

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by vineyardmike on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:44AM (#27525955)
> If one of my reports used work resources to collude for substance abuse I would do everything I can to fire them.

They actually used work resources to discuss medical treatments so firing them over this would likely be very illegal.

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by Ancapistani on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @11:59PM (#27524756)
> Strategizing on how to lie is unacceptable to me.

Where are you getting this? Who lied?

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Re:Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you? by vineyardmike on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:43AM (#27525950)
> My experiences will be left as an exercise to the reader.

I assume that you've sought medical care and been criticized for it, and now spread that unfortunate rhetoric to others?

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