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Hi Clive – I guess how your GP will react will depend on how he reacts in general to you bringing concerns to him. My GP/Mr. purlgurl’s is a youngerish guy, and he tends to be pretty open about us coming in and going, “I’ve been doing some thinking about/reading about x, and I wonder…” So, I was a bit nervous about going to see him and saying “I think I might have ADHD, and I talked to a therapist, and she thinks I might have ADHD, and that might be at the root of my depression”, but he was cool with it.
He asked me some ADHD-specific diagnostic questions (I should note that I had had the depression dx for a long time when he became my family doctor, so we’d never gone into that in tremendous detail), said that it might be possible, gave me a prescription for Ritalin to try out, a referral to a psychiatrist, and said that if I noticed a difference in functioning on the Ritalin, that would be a pretty good clue about ADHD, and if not, we could look at the anxiety disorder side of things. He asked me to come back in two weeks, or sooner if anything urgent arose. I *did* notice a difference with Ritalin on the first day, and the rest is history! So, it might not be as bad as you’re thinking, and if your doctor isn’t receptive, definitely seek out a second opinion. Good luck!
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