Like, if its nots public health system its obviusly price-gated for obvious reasons (it can be a commodity or boutique diagnosis for the rich and connected to get their sweet-sweet pharma speed)
I take arguably the sweetest or 2nd sweetest of that sweet-sweet pharma speed on prescription so lets not get into the the whole speed semantics for those of us otherwise inclinced
Edit: some advice- skip your first appointment on accident. It seems counterintutitive but its actually completely intuitive and expected for an actual ADHD person. If I was a psychiatrist I woupd almpst expect or come to expect people who end up diagnosed to do that haha
Difficult to find providers who actually can properly diagnose it who aren’t overwhelmed. There’s a shortage of mental health providers in the US, and specialists even more so. And many of us were just told our whole lives that we were lazy or had personality defects, so we tend to mask making it difficult to diagnose properly if providers aren’t experienced. Many still only use outward hyperactivity as a valid sign or only diagnose children since there was a long belief that it went away with adulthood, but in reality it’s just usually heavily masked by adults out of necessity.