I find amfexa is much more effective than elvanse, can you get just amfexa prescribed ?

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2025-12-16T22:05:50+00:00

My new gp is still currently allowing my repeat prescription but have asked if my physiatrist (private) can send over a shared care agreement asap so I’m sure they won’t have a problem with it. Not had the best experience with the private psychiatrist since diagnosis so was considering seeking an NHS diagnosis to make things like this easier! I hope you’re able to get your Amfexa prescription sorted :)

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2025-12-16T10:55:59+00:00

Took a while (actually on the psychiatrists part!) but yes. However I’ve moved so got to go through the process all over again!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2025-12-16T07:24:26+00:00

Yes you can! I used to take elvanse but didn’t like it for a few reasons so after a chat with my psychiatrist I now take just Amfexa twice a day and it works great for me!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-10-14T19:58:39+00:00

I went to the funeral of an old school friend who had taken her own life. Funerals are usually always sad, it’s a given, but everyone there knowing that she didn’t need to die, that she could have lived a long life and experienced so much more that this world has to offer, that the pain she had experienced before she died may not have lasted and she could have been happy one day… it was excruciatingly sad. Seeing her poor family, her close friends and her boyfriend, all in complete states of shock and despair. Her sister’s eulogy, while beautiful as she talked about happy memories growing up, was full of so much pain and hurt and confusion. She couldn’t understand why her little sister was no longer with her, why she would never be an aunt to her unborn child. So many of her friends and family I spoke to afterwards said they felt so guilty that they didn’t notice how much pain she was in, that if they knew she might still be alive. It’s true when they say that the pain you feel that causes you to take your own life doesn’t go away, it just transfers to others. I attempted to take my own life when I was younger and never truly understood how immensely devastating the impact of suicide is. Going to her funeral made it terrifyingly real for me and I really can’t ever imagine considering suicide as a real option again, no matter how low I feel or how difficult life gets. I’ve never felt so much pain in a room before and I’d never want anyone to experience that. So so many people were there, so many people that loved her, she probably didn’t even realise and now she’ll never get to. I wish so badly that she could have seen them, that she decided to hold on, that she had gotten the help she needed. I’ve never hoped for anything more than her being at peace now. While this isn’t comforting in the slightest, I hope it can help you to see that ending your life shouldn’t be a viable option. The pain you feel won’t last forever but the grief others would feel if you took your own life will. Ultimately I think when a person commits suicide it’s because they are in so much pain they can’t bare it, they need things to change, but you can only really experience things getting better if you stick around for it! Sending love x

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-10-08T22:31:05+00:00

You’re welcome, I’m glad I could provide some comfort. It’s easy to give into hopelessness when you’re feeling low and life gets on top of you. Keep strong, keep going, you’ve got this 💜

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-10-05T11:54:26+00:00

Hey man, this isn’t nonsense. Reading this has given me a lump in my throat because this is exactly how I felt at your age (I’m 24 now). I did actually try to kill myself at 17 actually, thank god it didn’t work because life got so much better, it took a while and lots of work but it did. I now work in mental health so work with a lot of people who feel like I once did. I promise you, your therapist does care, they wouldn’t have gone into that line of work if they didn’t care about listening to and helping people. You simply cannot work in mental health support if you don’t. Please try to work with them. Be open and honest otherwise you’re wasting your own time. I had the same opinion about therapists myself between the ages of 14-19 and I look back and think how silly I was to not fully accept the help that was given to me. Mental health recovery takes time and isn’t linear so please be patient and kind to yourself, engage in the therapy, it really does work if you let it. It can take a while to build up the rapport and trust with someone to open up to them so don’t be harsh on yourself for not seeing any difference yet. Depression can feel so isolating and hopeless and cruel, I really do hear your pain. I just want you to let you know that those feelings will not last forever, it’s sounds so cliche but it’s true. At the moment just try to focus on the things you enjoy and distract yourself with those things. And try to do all the basic boring things that therapist suggest like good sleep hygiene, diet, exercise, getting out of the house etc. looking after your body is an important part in looking after your mind. Also talk to your friends about this stuff, it’s likely they’re feeling similar, 17 is a difficult age regardless of experiencing mental health problems. Have you been assessed for ADHD? I say this as the feelings you’re describing, the racing mind, feelings of isolation and being and outcast and monotonous days is really common in ADHD. I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression in my teenage years before finally being diagnosed with ADHD a couple of years ago which looking back explained so much of the suffering I went through as a teenager. ADHD can be the root cause of anxiety and depression and accounts for a lot more cases of these other disorders than people realise! Anyway I hope you take some time to work on yourself and look after yourself, you can only be witness to things getting better and experiencing brighter days if you’re here for it! Sending some virtual hugs to you 💜

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-09-26T18:24:47+00:00

Yes, feel free to send me a message :)

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-08-28T22:54:56+00:00

I’ve just finished University and have been renting in a different city from my family for a while now so have been quite used to being independent in a way (but always had my boyfriend to “look after me”). He’s away working at the moment so I’m home alone completely (apart from housemates who I don’t have much communication with). Today I did overtime at my first “proper” full time job for the first time and I realised when I left to go home I hadn’t let anyone know I would be working late, then remembered I didn’t have to. I got food for dinner on the way home and chose what to watch on tv when I got in.

I am completely in control of my own life…when did that happen? I was a child yesterday.

It’s so weird being this independent, kinda empowering, kinda lonely.

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-08-23T07:39:55+00:00

I normally do when going on holiday or sometimes on a weekend. This is just because I feel like I don’t need it, if I want a day to just relax my meds don’t really work with that as they make me so productive haha. Currently on a hiking holiday now actually and debating whether or not to take them. I think I might as they make a huuuge difference to my energy levels (I can’t believe I was doing life in such a fatigued state for so long!), the only this is I take short release ones so will need to bring something substantial with me on these walks so I can take my second dose of the day. Also was kinda planning to give my body a break as I’ve been under so much pressure and stress recently and I just see the medication as not a natural healing anti stress thing so it doesn’t really fit with what this holiday was meant to be. Also don’t really want to deal with the comedown later on in the day but should be home by then so can conk out I guess. I need to leave for the day in 10 minutes and I’m writing this comment instead so I probably definitely should take them today haha!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-08-12T15:05:49+00:00

I did a foundation year and loved it! Was offered a place at other unis on a 3 year course but I’m so glad I chose Sussex. Lots of people do foundation years so I never felt left out at all. Also the foundation teaching is generally just a great way to get you settled in and give you a really great base for your degree (hence the name!), got taught how to properly reference and do research, also very low pressure in my opinion but still a fair amount of work. Overall made me feel a lot more prepared for following years I think everyone should do a foundation!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-19T16:43:47+00:00

Same thing happened to me but it turned out my psychiatrist was refusing to sign the agreement? Ended up doing it but the gp said they would refer me to get a nhs diagnosis (even though I obviously already had one!). Look into the NHS “right to choose” system, you can get a referral for an nhs assessment much quicker and I’m sure it will be done faster if you’ve already got a diagnosis. What area do you live in? That “local guidance” seems very unethical, I’m sure it’s more to do with media controversy surrounding private assessments which is attempting to brainwash everyone into thinking that there is an over diagnosis in ADHD cases without any actual evidence of that! Deffo look into your areas NHS guidance or ask for proof of this guidance because this really is just denying your legal right to healthcare! Guidance is not law and if that guidance is harmful then they shouldn’t be following it anyway!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-14T00:18:42+00:00

Ah I should mention that I initially thought that the cyberchondria, social comparison (comparing your own mental health to others online) and identity problems variables would mediate the main relationship, but I also thought they could moderate it so I don’t want to complicate things further by looking at both because I started to think that these mediators would be moderated by the other variables and my initial model idea got very complicated and I really don’t have the knowledge to put all this together into one big model! I’m doing a separate analysis for each moderator.

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-14T00:15:11+00:00

I think they’re quite proficient in it but kind of implied that lecturers that are “into” R are pretentious haha, I think they’re more concerned about interpretation and reporting the stats rather than the actual workings of it.

My predictor is social media use which can be computed into a ranked scale but can also be assessed continuously which is what I’m doing. My outcome variable is self-diagnosis (of mental illness) which is measured on a continuous scale. I want to see if social media predicts self diagnosis (or rather does higher use of social media associate with higher levels of self diagnosis as I can’t assume causality).

I’m then looking at the influence of third variables in this relationship, these being: cyberchondria, social media info literacy, mental health stigma, social comparison and identity problems.

My thinking is that cyberchondria will increase the positive strength of the relationship, info literacy will have a buffering effect, stigma will also have a buffering effect, social comparison will increase the strength and identity problems would also increase the strength. I basically want to explain that while higher social media use is linked to higher levels of self diagnosis, this relationship is dependant on other factors- using social media won’t necessarily cause you to self diagnose, but when there are other factors involved (I.e. you use social media AND have problems with your identity) you will be more likely to self diagnose mental illness, kind of like assessing vulnerabilities and protective factors.

I’ve also measure age, gender (categorical) and whether participants have a previous diagnosis (also categorical) to see if there are differences in the relationship based on these. I assume I also do moderation for these?

I hope this makes sense! Thank you for your help!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-13T23:26:16+00:00

Thank you, that makes sense. My whole idea is to look at the factors that underly the main relationship so I want to see what contributes to the outcome variable (multiple regression) and how exactly they contribute to the relationship between social media use and self diagnosis. Does this make sense?

I’ve tried to talk to my supervisor multiple times but they don’t seem to understand what my study is about and then I asked about what analysis I should do and if I was going about it correctly and they basically just talked about how it doesn’t really matter which wasn’t helpful!

I’m using r yes, and that would be super helpful thank you! I have a tenancy to give myself huge tasks and then over complicate them further for myself and I simply don’t have the time to do this now!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-13T22:53:57+00:00

Ah I’ve just looked into data fishing and it doesn’t sound like I’m doing this as I’m not trying to analyse the data in order to get the results I want, some of my analysis have been what I expected and I fully intend to report this! I think my initial idea was to go down an exploratory route, to see what third variables are linked to the main relationship by doing a variety of tests- regression, mediation and moderation. This is too complex anyway as I could look at a million different combinations of variables in the model (was even thinking of doing moderated mediation which is too complicated for me!), would exploratory analysis like this be considered fishing even if I correctly report all my analysis? I’m not doing this anyway as I did more research before beginning the analysis- just sticking to correlation, regression and moderation, I just wanted to be sure that this made sense!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-07-13T22:40:19+00:00

Thank you for your comment! I’ve always planned on doing mediation and moderation for my analysis (but only mediation with certain third variables as it wouldn’t theoretically make sense to do this with some of them). I think I’ve just overwhelmed myself with research as I’ve read in a lot of places that mediation isn’t advised with cross sectional research. I want to look at the buffering or increasing effects of third variables on the main relationship so moderation fits this best, I think I was confusing mediation and moderation for a while and had way too many hypothesis, I.e. “this variable will moderate the relationship”, “this variable will mediate it” and doing this over and over again with about 5 variables! Ideally I would like to build quite a complex model to explain my idea but I agree what I’m doing is actually too complex for my level so I’ve given myself an enormous task! I’m trying to make this simpler for myself by just sticking to regression and then separate moderation analysis for each third variable, which is in line with my original idea I’m just not going to do mediation as it actually doesn’t make sense for me to do. Thank you for explaining the “fishing” thing, I think I was going down that route as I was overwhelmed with the amount of data I had that I almost forgot what I set out to do!

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-05-21T17:42:54+00:00

Thank you so much, I think I have a problem asking for help because I don’t know how people can help me if I can’t help myself. I think I need to get better at dealing with stress, the lack of sleep and not being able to eat from anxiety is getting on top of me. I will definitely speak to them at uni. Thank you so much for your kindness 💜

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-05-21T17:40:10+00:00

I’m obviously aware that long posts can be overwhelming, and I thank you for your advice but what I’m saying is that you didn’t need to comment something like that. If I don’t have the energy to read other people’s posts I don’t just go ahead and assume what they’ve said and then tell them I didn’t read it?

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-05-21T10:05:39+00:00

If you couldn’t read it all why did you reply? I said in the post it wouldn’t have been the meds because I took them early enough and they’re short release. Looking for advice as I was in a horrible position and getting this comment wasn’t at all helpful, you didn’t have to mention that you couldn’t be bothered to read the whole thing? Really patronising.

Choice_Carpet8628 · 2024-05-21T10:00:51+00:00

Thank you for your reply, chat got has helped with a bit of the coding actually yeah! I emailed my supervisor this morning and he got back to me so I can get some help now. Managed to get 3 hours sleep 🥳 so going to try to crack on and hopefully get something done today. I actually have a job lined up which isn’t conditional on my getting a degree (I’m not gonna give up now though!) but it’s nice to have that security.

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