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Self-diagnosis is valid if it helps you (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 60 points 4 months ago

Is it me that finds it weird signing off her own tweets with her name, when her username is literally right there?

It's just a shame the (presumably US-based) healthcare system is a clusterfuck, because that bit of expensive paper with a diagnosis on it would likely open up a whole host of avenues for exploration of the condition.

[-] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 months ago

It’s just a shame the (presumably US-based) healthcare system is a clusterfuck,

Laughs in disembowelled NHS..

When the government controlling the public health service doesn't give a shit about the actual public, especially those who it sees as "burdens", you get more or less the same shit as if it didn't exist at all.

I was on a waiting list for 2 years to get an autism diagnosis, and the only way around this is to go private and pay an absolute fortune (this is of course by design - deprive the NHS of its specialists in favour of for profit private clinics).

Want therapy? Wait at least 8 months. Honest about being suicidal? No need to wait that long, here are some cops to come and take you away..

My point is the op is correct no matter where you are in the world, and people who insist that self diagnosis isn't valid seriously need to check their privilege.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I lucked out - was on the wait list just before covid, and seemingly covid stopped the tests and worked through the waitlist instead.

I was diagnosed and prescribed after waiting 1.5 years. Now it seems people are expected to wait over double that.

No wonder there has been a boom in private healthcare diagnosis

[-] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

My 2 year wait was over a decade ago, so looong before covid. The fact that things are worse now isn't really surprising considering the service is now basically a hollowed out carcass with several hundred private firms picking it apart..