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Hahaha!! I can soooo relate to teaching yourself to write left handed in your lectures. I did a similar thing – taught myself to write back to front. It drove everyone nuts, because if they borrowed my lecture notes, they would have to read them in a mirror lol!!!
My appointment is in five days time. I had to wait four months to get to this stage. Not easy! I won’t be happy if the psychiatrist I am seeing is not easy to talk to, or too conservative to believe in adult ADHD. Thankfully my GP is fantastic, easy to talk to, and I have her full support, so I don’t feel as worried as I did before I talked to her about my thoughts on possibly having adult ADHD. I know she will help me through the mental trauma of arranging a referral to another psychiatrist. I just wish she could prescribe medication for me, but where I live, adults with ADHD have to be prescribed stimulant medication by a psychiatrist, not a GP, and psychiatrists tend to be a conservative bunch in general (the ones I have met through work certainly are). Grrr!!
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