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Doctors in England told not to start new patients on ADHD drugs due to shortage (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As someone who takes an ADHD medication, I find the idea of a drug shortage terrifying. Life gets so, so much harder when I'm unmedicated.

It's like the difference between walking on a sidewalk and walking in sucking mud, with stuff falling out of your pockets you have to keep going back to find. You build a life that's only possible thanks to your ability to walk on sidewalks. If you suddenly find you can only get around by walking through mud, even with a huge amount of will power, you're going to watch your life fall apart as you just can't keep up the pace of your old life.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Very early in my life I told my dad I wanted off of Ritalin because it didn't feel sustainable for me. So when I was about 8 or 9 I chose to try to create mental tools to deal with ADHD over medication. I don't know if it worked as well. It'd be nice to have a prescription that worked for me. I went to try other prescriptions a few times and never felt like they worked for me. I might try to go back to Ritalin but with the shortage it feels pointless to try to do.

[-] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As a fellow ADD-haver, I advocate for you to continue trying new medications. Studies show that ADD/ADHD responds to medicine better than almost any other psychiatric disorder, even if it sometimes requires multiple revisions or a cocktail to achieve the desired effect.

If you're intrigued, I will refer you to this lecture by Dr. Barkley. The entire lecture is valuable, though I recognize that asking someone to watch 60+ minutes of jargon is not overly helpful! To make things easier -- if you'll pardon my layman's editorializing -- I've curated a list of specifically relevant timestamps: