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Can you please stop with the "candy" trope?

Here in the UK, ADHD drugs are controlled substances. They can only be prescribed as by registered psychiatrists as part of ongoing treatment with patient monitoring. There are not enough doctors qualified to do this, and as a result people who need the treatment are facing year-long queues.

Don't get medical advice from TikTok, and don't form an opinion of a mental disorder and its treatment from TikTok either. The "have you tried mental health walk?" thing is as infuriating as cancer patients getting "have you tried essential oils and yoga?"

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> Here in the UK, ADHD drugs are controlled substances

They're controlled susbtances in the US too, but there appear to be a whole slew of sites in the US where you can fill out a form and they'll send you a perfectly legit scrip

> There are not enough doctors qualified to do this, and as a result people who need the treatment are facing year-long queues.

For anyone reading this who thinks they might need treatment and is putting it off, note that there are (expensive! ~£1k) private alternatives where you can get assessed and prescribed by a UK psychiatrist over Zoom with appointments as soon as today.

Link please because I've looked and can't find

I had success with donefirst.com

for the UK, I found www.adhdcentre.co.uk which wants £895 for an online ADHD consultation, and the next appt is 7am tomorrow

The Effra Clinic is excellent. https://effraclinic.co.uk

I used them after struggling for a long time trying to get diagnosed via the NHS (“you’re a successful young man! You can’t have ADHD!”) and have recommended them to several people.

The person you are replying to is well aware that it's a bad thing, that's why they pointed it out.

Maybe they have a hard time paying attention to the text? Or does ADD affect reading? I'm not really sure how it works

In order:

- They could

- Sometimes it does

- "It" doesn't work a single way, which is why there are so many different opinions of how to look at it :)

It certainly can affect reading. As the other commenter stated, it can affect people in may different ways. It affects my reading differently based on the content. Ask me to read a textbook for a history class and I won't make it more than a few sentences without serious distraction. If I somehow actually "finish" reading a chapter I still won't be able to tell you much if any of the content. But give me a good sci-fi book and I will burn through it in a matter of hours. And good luck getting anything else out of me during that time.

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