Disclaimer: I’m referring the the US medical system, but I imagine people in other countries may encounter similar things.

I cannot be the only one who has had this experience, but all my dealings with the medical industry feel like they were refined by a group of psychologists to exploit the weaknesses of those with ADHD.

The volume of calls, appointments, and paperwork I had to full out to get a diagnosis and prescription for treatment is completely unreasonable to expect someone with poor working memory and attention issues to navigate.

Then, to stay on medication, you need to schedule and make appointments with a psychiatrist every month, for the rest of your life, and if you miss a single one, you will run out of meds (and likely charged a fine), which will make it even harder to remember to make the next one. If you miss too many, that psychiatrist will refuse to see you again and you have to go back to your PCP to get a new referral.

Look, I understand that their time is valuable, but this system couldn’t be designed any other way to be more accommodating to people who clinically forget things?!

It’s like designing a wheelchair ramp that’s actually just stairs that are 3x as steep as the regular stairs. Also, if you fall to the bottom, someone takes your wheelchair until you can climb back up.

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      Believe it!

      On December 19, 2007, a DEA regulation came into effect that allows a prescriber to issue multiple prescriptions authorizing an individual patient to receive a total of up to a 90-day supply of a Schedule II controlled substance.2 However, this is allowable only under the following conditions:

      There are some restrictions, but it’s a thing. It looks like it can depend on state. In my case, I believe they did it every month, but I only had to visit the office once every three months, the two after that were just called in/you could fill out a website form if you had any issue. But that likely counted as “three prescriptions,” rather than “a single 90-day prescription,” to your point. The main thing for me was not having to get away from work and into a doctor’s office every single month only for her to say, “Alright! See you next month!” as she charged me more than the insurance allowed to fund her (literal) new Corvette parked out front.