"Oh, you have the disease 'It's Hard to Do Things'?"
"Yes I do."
"Well there's a medication that makes it easier to Do Things."
"That's great!"
"To get it there is going to be many, many things you need to do."
"But...I need the medicine to do things."
"Clearly you're engaging in Drug Seeking Behavior. We will add more things for you to do."
"Can't I just get the medicine in an easy way first then do these things later?"
"No. You must do even more things to get medicine that makes it easier to do things."
"Okay, I have done the things."
"Good. Now you must convince this person that you deserve the medication without it sounding like you want the medication. Did you know "It's Hard to Do Things" often goes hand in hand with "It's Hard to People?"
"I did know that. I also have "It's Hard to People." The doctor thinks I am faking for drugs."
"Start over again."
"But I have the disease 'It's Hard to Do Things'"
[Repeat]
- it/its, she/her
former government employee, CS major, ski lift operator, and summer camp counselor. currently shooting for EMT certification
in reply to @estrogen-and-spite's post:
I keep hearing more and more anecdotes about ADHD that punch me directly in the face.
I got tested and they decided I don't have ADHD but because I can't people I only had responses from my immediate family for the interviewing other people portion and they were all more worried that I'm depressed because they're ignoring that I can't do anything
My depression never got any better through treating the depression but things got much easier once I was diagnosed and medicated for adhd because so much of the depression is Want To Do Thing But Cannot
Yeah it felt like borderline cruelty how many forms I had to fill out to get tested. I only got it done because I had a friend body double while I dialed their office and then I asked the receptionist/assistant to literally walk me through each form one by one on the phone.
I miss having adhd medication.
Back in 2017 my doc missed a refill and decided me being a pest about it was drug seeking behavior, piss tested me when I came in, and when they found none in my system (because i'd been out for three weeks at that point, love having a doctor that exists only during job hours), concluded that I was selling it, and reported that to my insuror which got me kicked off my insurance. Great system.
when they diagnosed me with ADHD they told me i had to get a heart test before i could get on meds. they handed me a sheet of paper and told me to call up the test centre.
i call the test centre. i get an automated notice telling me to call another number. i write that number down.
i call the other number. i get a message telling me that they're available between 10am and 2pm, monday, wednesday and friday. I hang up and write that down.
I remember it's monday between 10am and 2pm and call back. I get an appointment.
I go to the appointment. They do the test. I walk out with results in hand. I call up the ADHD clinic (no time like the present) to ask when their drop-in sessions are. They inform me there's a shortage and they won't be writing prescriptions for months.
Apparently the shortages are over now, but they've yet to write to me to tell me that I can get my script. We'll see how the saga goes.
To do the thing you must have already done the thing, and then somehow it's a moral failure that you are physically unable to do the thing, people act like
All of these ADHD posts scream at me to go get tested. Still building the energy to do so. I was diagnosed as a kid but no records of this remain.
In Germany we have the expression of "Passierschein A38" for this kind of hostile bureaucracy, referencing a bit from an Asterix movie.
In English the expression is "catch-22," from the Joseph Heller novel of the same name.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to, but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
