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, I've been medicated for years now, my main psychiatrist is working with me, tweaking the med combo. We decreased my Prozac, kept the Seroquel XR at 150mg, and added Lamotrigine (we're hoping we can phase Prozac out with that).
So far, my symptoms have gotten a lot better with the tweak and we're still going to be tweaking to get to the proper therapeutic dose for me. The constant irritability, depressive thoughts, and anxious feelings have been subsiding gradually since we started increasing the Lamotrigine.
But this isn't about Bipolar or Anxiety disorders. I have severe, severe ADHD symptoms. I can't get a diagnosis/seen for another 8 months (April 2024) by my main hospital network (Baptist in Florida), my stepdad just got a diagnosis from a different "Wellness" clinic and I was wondering if anyone has any advice on this. I genuinely love my psychiatrist and therapist now, but I also want to get my symptoms treated ASAP and my main providers just don't specialize in ADHD so I have to go to a WHOLE other psychologist to get any kind of answer which is why I have to wait 6 months to see that person.
This is all so frustrating and I feel SO UNPRODUCTIVE. I feel stable, somewhat even content with life. But I can't get away from the anxiety surrounding my inattentive symptoms and how distracted I am from my life. I can't get trade school stuff done, my work is hard to stay consistent with, and my hyperactivity, mentally and physically, is extremely hard to cope with. I'm lucky the school is online and at my own pace, and my dad lets me work for him and understands I have conditions.
But genuinely I don't know what to do! I think I'm going to try seeing this "Wellness" clinic to get treatment faster for ADHD. Or maybe talkiatry or something online. But only for ADHD and keep my main psych/therapist right now.
I'm just looking for advice/answers/experiences and anything is helpful because these 8 months are going by so slowly and my brain wants to move so much more faster.
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