41, Male and pretty sure I'm ADD but little medical help in UK Please HELP

dude, I saw a tv show about ADD and after that I was 100% positive I had it. At first when I saw the psychiatrist he scoffed at me and thought I was trying to scam him for the meds. You can always have the psychological tests done if you pay for them. All this info is available to research on the internet. Anyways he had me do this little 60 second test and told me I didn’t have it, blah, blah, blah. So I kept seeing him and after a few visits he comes out and tells ME that I have ADD and he wants me to start medication for it !!!!! Quite a switch. Dr’s cannot tell from a 30 minute test if you have it in my opinion. You have to fight for it bro’, amass data, evidence, examples, test results, just keep at it man. That’s what I was prepared to do, I was not going to go untreated by our medical system here, I pay taxes and I have A RIGHT to equal medical care. Get the psychological test results and go back and confront the Dr. with the evidence, If you have it as you say you do then justice will prevail and you will be successful, over and out

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Hi Roker,

Thanks ever so much for getting in touch, I really have appreciated ever single comment and yours as many are very perceptive and helpful. I may well have the ‘hyper’ bit but i may manage to subdue it with alcohol or painkillers, I can sometimes get a kind of ‘second wind’ and run about and start tidying the house at odd hours. So the racing mind can cause me to blurt stuff out, the test I’ve done show character traits that I’ve learnt to identify and subdue, so maybe it is hypre the more I think. I know that with the correct treatment I will be fine and that may in turn stop the panic attacks that come on from a thought or inside question of ‘what if??’ or’what do I do here?’ but getting there is unbelievably difficult. Indeed I believe with proper diagnosis and treatment for thousands of children and adults we could save many a life from being wasted or sadly lost and even a fortune nationally at the same time as asnwer a lot of societies problems as thro my own experiences in the Police the ‘naughty child’ sticker that poor wee souls are often labeled with, and that causes many folk to just accept they are worthless and trouble as they’ve been written off by teachers, Policemen, courts and the government, may well all just be undiagnosed autistic spectrum disorders. Prisons must be full with folk who don’t need to be there or would never have followed their lifestyles if the prehistoric medical profession had looked at this properly 20-30 years ago. My own brother in law, (I hate saying this) is a bit of a hopeless case and has spend a year out of the last 2 in jail for alcohol related trouble. Nothing major just he can’t handle it. He drinks to mask his problems and won’t admit it hence the ‘hopeless’ part, I wish he would listen to help but he can’t or won’t open his mind to the question ‘why??’ I shouldn’t judge too much as it was only a year ago after my dear dear wife threatened to leave me for drinking that I thought long and hard about that very point – why? and the more I though, the further back I went i realised I’m running from myself and always have been. I got to thinking that no matter what I did or where I’d always been, I would be my harshest and most brutal critic and until I addressed the root cause nothing else matters/ed. Anyway, I live in Scotland although was a cop in the Met years ago and still have a few friends so maybe one day we’ll meet,. Out of interest what medication do you get/take and is it from your GP or a clincian? and how much of a difference do you feel it makes? Thanks once again, it is nice for you to take the time to reply and for me to know I’m not alone and there is support from all parts of this wonderful world of ours

Kind Regards

AM

Have you thought of contacting your local member of parliament in the UK. It sometimes very effective in the US and to a lesser extent in Canada.

I know battling socialized medicine can be extraordinarily painful. The wait time is unacceptable. wait times in some cases costs lives. ADHD has a huge impact on quality of life, ability to compete in school, ability to find employment and the impact on personal relationships. Socialized medicine can not keep up demand because decisions on resources are political and it creates a mediocre health care system

I was diagnosed with ADD in Nov 2011 and the difference in my quality of life is remarkable. Unfortunately it only took 40 years for me to get an accurate diagnosis.

hello again, sorry for the delay but a mix-up with my password kept me from getting on the site. Go to a Canadian website

http://www.caddac.com or ca or org or something like that. They have a whole bunch of professional tests that you can self- administer or get a

spouse or parent to do, this should give you a pretty good idea of where you’re at. The meds are amphetamines but they actually calm you

down and you can’t/don’t get high off them. My big thing was impatience, either in line-ups (freaking out) and road rage !!!! plus inability to

concentrate. Meds, Concerta 36mg have been a huge help, let me know how you make out