referral GET

[jazzfish]

The Telus Health appointment, in contrast, was entirely painless.

DOCTOR: Alright, why do you think you have ADHD?
ME: Well, I was diagnosed as a kid--
DOCTOR: OH! So you HAVE ADHD.

And we had like a five-minute conversation about "you don't outgrow ADHD, you just get better at coping" and why/how it was causing enough problems for me to seek treatment now, and we were done, and an hour or so later I got an automated email saying that the referral had been sent.

She did ask if I had any other conditions and I sort of died a little inside and said "I was diagnosed with depression at eighteen," and she just kind of waved it off. In retrospect I suspect she was maybe looking for whether I had an autism diagnosis? Because I was definitely not making much eye contact while speaking and stumbling over my words a bit and probably overexplaining as well.

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My ADHD-esque avoidance is definitely tied to anxiety: "this is gonna be hard despite everyone saying it's easy" or "this has some unknown bits to it that i don't automatically know how to navigate." So, dealing with the first causes there would probably help with the avoidance? But that takes time and I don't really have time, and also having some help would be nice. I do not, in fact, have to do things the hard/right way all the time. (I am also doing it the hard/right way but I would like some help in addition to that.)

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In other news, I hauled Mr Tuppert off to the vet for a toe trim and he was a Perfect Gentleman. Just sat there and let the vet wrap an arm around him and clip all four feet, no pulling away or anything.

Hmpf.

Comments

[reedrover]

I’m glad that was relatively painless once the conversation started.

[jazzfish]

Thanks, and me too. Whew.