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Are therapists not allowed to diagnose ADHD? I'm curious because my therapist suspected I might have ADHD and he referred me out to someone else (a psychiatric nurse practitioner) to make a diagnosis. This seems to jibe with what you're saying AniManiac. I know therapists diagnose depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc., but not ADHD?
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Yes, I don't think they are. They can write down tentative dx but only nurse practitioner or psychiatrist or someone that can write prescriptions can officially diagnose.
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I heard yesterday (from my T) that the surest way to evaluate ADHD is to prescribe meds. If they make you all hopped-up, then you don't need 'em and you don't have ADHD. If they make you focused, then bingo! The catch with that is that people who have DEA approval for prescribing controlled substances are very, very careful about who gets what meds because it can be a big, big mess (for them) if they're not.
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If you mean all hopped up, you mean like put you into a manic state or make you hyper? I can't recall if the medicine did that or not. It seemed like I did get more things done than usual and was able to focus very well. I also had a lot of motivation. And it completely cured my depression, like I was another person. But like I said it made it so I couldn't go to sleep. Maybe I did have excess energy it's kind of foggy.
Well, regardless my therapist is putting me through tests to see if it is ADHD next week. I recently spoke with a nurse practitioner and he said he was pretty sure that's what it was as well and wanted to prescribe wellbutrin or straterra to me, but decided to wait out on testing. So after the 16th I'll follow up on this thread let everyone know what's going on.