The odd thing is I don't even know people here diagnosed with AD, not even many diagnosed with bipolar, not one with Tourette's for example! I mean, come on, it's not that rare, there have to be people here who have it??! I think most people go undiagnosed and untreated and are left to their own devices which leaves many on the brink of society . Also, you'd think we live in the stone age, it's still literally a taboo to suffer from mental illness! Hardly anyone admits they have it since you're considered an underachiever, lame, dumb, lazy, childish, irresponsible and an attention seeker. Many doctors seem ignorant to me to tell the truth. I'd suffered fibromyalgia for about a decade and the docs here didn't even know what it was. I had to go abroad to get diagnosed and they don't even treat you for it here, just an occasional painkiller. So for a decade they behaved like I was just making things up, looking to justify my "laziness" and some even insinuated I was looking for a diagnosis that would cover up for the fact that I have a mental illness ( well I told them I was depressed myself,how is that covering it up, they seem to think that's hardly an illness. arrrgh). While I believe heavy medication should be avoided when not necessary it's obvious that some things REQUIRE medical treatment and patients can not be expected to go without. If it was cancer they'd put you on a cocktail of all sorts of meds, so how does it make sense to expect patients to sweep mental illness under the rug? Sometimes I wish I could move elsewhere, I get so worked up over this.