Doctors in England told not to start new patients on ADHD drugs due to shortage
Charity ADHD UK says NHS’s failure to act sooner is devastating for those living with the condition
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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.
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.
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:
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Stimulants, including new formulations and delivery systems
The neurobiology of executive dysfunction and the neuroprotective argument for seeking medication
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The Piped version of the video is very much failing to load for me. Does anyone happen to know why?
It appears to be a Piped outage. Both the homepage and video links are loading slowly and frequently seem to outright fail.
