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Originally Posted by volsinchy
I see that you have problems. Me too, and I'm not sure, it's something PTSD-caused, and may have a lot of issues related to this - ADHD, BPD, or... For example, I don't procrastinate at all. And some types of ADHD procrastinate.
I think the healthcare system at all is not enough for complicated things.
You have Ritalin, and I would like also to use some medications if we have them here. It's great that you have such an option. And the diagnostic as I read is so complicated that I realized if it is somewhere, I can not afford it.
My bad voices before also disturbed me, but those were toxic voices of my family that I repeated. And I am getting rid of them (ADHD causes over-clinging to the problems). I think I must use everything that helps me. Many people can't go witouth medical support nowadays and it's normal I think. We live in a mad world.
I use caffeine for being somehow effective. I can't work without it.
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My "diagnostic" was me taking someone else's amphetamine salts and falling asleep in the middle of the day 30 minutes later and telling that story when I ended up inpatient and them saying "a lot of people with ADHD have more of a sedative effect than a stimulant effect from stimulants, maybe that's use, let's give you 5mg in the morning and see how that goes." It was "suspected" for at least a decade before (basically since I got into treatment), but I never saw anyone "qualified" or "confident" to do a "legitimate assessment."
I read that ADHD, bipolar, (C)PTSD (if you're including that as a dx), and BPD all common misdiagnoses of each other and I've had/have all of those right now, so...
I feel like it doesn't even matter and these things probably aren't even neatly separated boxes like how leukemia is a totally different thing from appendicitis, but you never near of people treating BPD with stimulants (well, doctor's anyways, I've heard of plenty of the self-medication variety). Bipolar was the first dx they were confident in which is why it took over a decade to be prescribed a stimulant, and it didn't cause mania or worsen psychosis.