• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago
    🤬

    Two years ago, I went to see a psychiatrist for an ADHD assessment. Did some questionnaires, as did my mum, and after a half an hour telehealth consultation, I was told I have ADHD. The report I was given by this psychiatrist was riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes, and claimed things like I have binge eating disorder and insomnia, when I don’t have either of those things. The directions for medications were vague, and the GP I went to had trouble following what was written. This GP isn’t thorough himself, writing me a mental health care plan with also lots of mistakes, and one that said I was going to see a psychologist because of three types of insomnia that you can’t have all at once. But to avoid paying $60 out of pocket to see the more thorough GP up the road, I didn’t really have a choice. Besides, that GP said, “Really?!! We would’ve picked that up when you were younger,” when I said I thought I had ADHD.

    So today, the GP asked me if I really needed medication. I tell him that’s his job to determine, but I have always struggled to stay afloat doing pretty much anything, and it’s made my life hell. He then asked me if I wanted to try a different medication, so he can change the permit to allow him to prescribe it. I told him I didn’t want to try a long-acting medication again, because I couldn’t sleep. He then tells me that he can’t change the permit to let me have something else, and the report is shit, and I should see a psychiatrist again.

    $900 out of pocket to see the first psychiatrist, probably a couple of hundred to try medication for depression and ADHD, lots of learned helplessness and valuable time lost… and now even more money down the drain. The price gouging is insane, exploiting people who are struggling and in need of answers. I’ve also heard of people who got a diagnosis, and somehow they’ve missed bipolar disorder when taking their hx, and oop, they’ve ended up with stimulant-induced psychosis.

    I went to the optometrist last year, who said I have a focusing problem with my eyes. Maybe that’s what it’s been this whole time.

    It just makes me wonder if I should even bother trying meds, or if I should just give up. But I cannot keep maintaining the status quo, or I will be giving up on life.

    • SituationCake@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      Hopefully you can get a second opinion from a different psychiatrist. I have heard stories before of people having additional conditions to adhd, which get missed because adhd symptoms can overlap with other things. If the medication is causing your life quality to be lower than without it, this sounds like it’s definitely the wrong stuff and needs a review. Taking it should be helpful, not make things worse.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Do you ever come across an object and think “I wonder what that’s from”? So you keep it thus occupying both physical space and brain space because you know if you do toss it you’ll work out what it’s for a week later once the big bins have been emptied. Yeah I hate that.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Ahh, companies. All ‘fuck you, peasant, eat my arse’ until you cancel your account and post on product review then it’s all ‘we’re sorrryyy how can we fix this??’

    Pity PR won’t let me actually reply with ‘eat my arse’

  • indisin@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    For anyone that maybe interested:

    More Laneway Festival tickets are going on sale at 10am tomorrow. Link

    Regardless of the music it’s a fun day out with lots of food and 🍻, it’s also on Valentines day!

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m going to wait 2 weeks before approaching my manager again about the outcome of the raise discussions.

    Have kept applying and have a couple more interviews next week.

    Will have to be working outside office hours anyway, and the raise would make it worthwhile, but we’ll see.

    Fingers crossed.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      Will it be worth it if you got the raise?

      From the impression I got it felt like they were overloading you with clients and work.

      There’s got to be a point where you have to tell them that you’ve been given too much work or too many clients to deal with?

      • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Honestly, I don’t know. The raise would be life changing. I could actually buy a house a lot sooner.

        I am overloaded. And I will need to work outside office hours. But everything has a cost. Depends what we want to sacrifice to achieve our goals.

        In the least, it will give me an incredible ability to handle large amounts of work which I can take with me to another place.

        Life has so many tough decisions.

  • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    No cheesemares to report, but evidently, I need to stop playing Slime Legion on my phone because I was definitely sliding little monsters in my dreams.

    Now to just the nightmare of my work day.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

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  • Pilk@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Just realised I’m crushing hard on a regular hookup guy at the moment. It’ll sting when things inevitably change and we can’t meet anymore. But accepting the happy chemicals and swooning a little in the meantime. 🫠🥲

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    How good is this weather? I’ll be school shoe shopping today with the kid where she’ll complain that they’re all ugly and it’s hard to choose between ugly and ugly.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    10 days ago

    dives in

    Edit: Something has been destroying my seedlings past the size the snails usually go for them.

    All the marigolds and some of the sunflowers in the dust bowl got stripped to sticks or straight up eaten. I traitorously wondered if the bird bros did it.

    Then very early yesterday morning something got one of the pumpkin seedlings. I wondered, possum or cat? I put a protective milk crate over the spare I replanted in its place.

    But then I found the moment on the camera and while I can’t see what the animal was I saw the seedling bend and dip as if something pulled it down. It could have bent under the weight of a very big snail crawling up the stem but it doesn’t look like snail damage. It was stripped too thoroughly and quickly, yanked down too fast.

    Honestly I’m thinking rats.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        10 days ago

        Yeah good idea. The 2l bottles might be a bit small but if I gently fold the leaves upwards and in it might protect them until the next growth spurt

        Edit:

        The largest boi looked like a baby being x-rayed.

         

        He has been allowed to shelter under the milk crate. The rest have been ensconced under drink bottle domes.

        I see a cherry tomato blushing so I need to see about buying some bird net. That special kind that doesn’t tangle wildlife, it’s been legislated or something

    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone
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      9 days ago

      I’ve been clearing out the shed and saw a rat in the backyard yesterday. Gawd I hope they don’t come in the house, particularly as we are sans cat now

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    update: Oh look, suddenly they have some new reviews lavishing adoration on their customer service after I explicitly mentioned how crap it was.

    geralt hmm

    (I wasn’t dwelling, they replied to me with a simpering wank and I wasn’t having it so I blasted them again)

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Wow. I joke and act chill but lately both my anxiety and sleep have been absolutely unmanageable. -_-

    Plus I have to get this grumpy tooth checked out again.

    I think it might be time to take a quarter of an otc sleeping pill between midnight and 2 to try and get at least a few hours of sleep at an appropriate time. (Taking any more than that is a roulette of it either completely not working or making me so groggy I sleep right through the next day.)