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I'd have paid off student loans already if someone gave me money every time someone with "bipolar" actually had ADHD.
Almost like a Scooby Doo episode, it had been ADHD the whole timeI'd have paid off student loans already if someone gave me money every time someone with "bipolar" actually had ADHD.
This just saddens me. What sets us apart as psychiatrists is not our ability to use multiple controlled substances and promote polypharmacy that other docs would otherwise not use because it doesn't make any sense and/or is dangerous. It's our extensive medical training and our extensive psychological training. Good training allows for complex biopsychosocial formulations that we can either deliver on or make recommendations for. We should have restraint and know what not to medicate. This earns us respect. A lot of non psych docs that I know have very little respect for psychs that overprescribe with simplistic views of mental health. Unfortunately, all too common.What's really remarkable about the diversity of patients, medical conditions, and the medication tools at our disposal, is the sheer combinations that then might be indicated, even if under a very specific set of variables.
Why even have psychiatrists if one is just gonna have blanket rules like "only one controlled substance at time, ever." "There is no such thing as ADHD as a lifelong condition." May as well just hand the kingdom over to the NPs then.
Story of my life! Hah the age group is also on point. I don't mind prescribing ADHD meds to the younger population but once you are in adulthood it gets super sketch. Adult ADHD is kind of an oxymoron because it's supposed to be a neurodevelopmental delay in children/adolescents in comparison to their peers... How are you still delayed when you are 40 years and above?
Seems like everyone is getting stimulants up here and when they are held to any kind of scrutiny the diagnosis was made with some kind of self-administered questionnaire or prescribed by non-psychiatrists. Rough.
You forgot PTSD and Schizophrenia, commonly comorbid with Bipolar attention deficits.I’d have Elon musk money if I was paid the amount of “bipolar disorder” and “adhd” that turned out to be borderline