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How do y'all cope without meds?
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Poorly. I'm unmedicated and trying to get on meds.
I wish you the best of luck, it took me years to get the right diagnosis and then about 7 months to get the appointment with a doc to prescribe me some meds.
Hopefully your journey is smoother than mine was.
Thank you. It's... a bumpy ride, lol.
Are you in the US? What difficulties are you running into?
My current psychiatrist doesn't want to prescribe me any stimulants because of the potential for abuse. For the record, I have no, uh, record of drug use. I don't even fucking drink. I get the caution, but it's deeply frustrating.
I found my current awesome psychiatrist at growtherapy.com. It took me a couple tries; I honestly don’t know how the first one still has a license to practice. No problems getting Adderall after that (other than the ridiculous hurdles the pharmaceutical industry has put in place). The behavior you are describing from your current psychiatrist is exactly the shit I was trying to avoid, and I spelled that out clearly in my first appointment with my current psychiatrist.