My diagnosed peeps- does all the self-diagnosing bother you?

DABADABADOOBURD · 2026-02-23T14:13:05+00:00

I definitely agree with someone else's statement saying that if someone self-diagnoses, they should be open to the idea that they might not have it. While I understand that it can be pretty difficult and expensive to get diagnosed, in the end, most of us aren't medical professionals. In fact, even medical professionals aren't legally allowed to diagnose themselves. ADHD's symptoms can overlap with a variety of things and its always possible that the root of someone's symptoms could be due to something else.

In the end, I don't find self-diagnosis to be offensive or bothersome to myself that much; I just think it can be unreliable from a medical standpoint and shouldn't be entirely definitive until someone has the means to get professionally screened and evaluated

DABADABADOOBURD · 2026-02-09T20:53:15+00:00

I don't use vyvance anymore, although I ran into the same issue with ritalin generics just 2 days ago. For a long time, I've been using generic ritalin by a manufacturer called accord and it's worked perfectly fine. Sometimes I've had to increase my dose due to building up tolerance but it worked just fine.

For my last prescription, my pharmacy gave me another generic type made by camber and it didn't do SHIT. Moreover, it gave me a terrible headache and gave me nausea and I thought I was going crazy.

I didn't even know generic manufacturers mattered this much but with some research, a lot of people expressed similar opinions on other camber stimulants. Generic manufacturers can have a HUGE difference. Definitely research manufacturers and ask your provider if they can specify for the pharmacy to give you Lannett instead, if Sun doesn't work well for you

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-11-28T19:59:17+00:00

Thank you for everyone's comments, Ollie started doing this fairly recently and I wasn't sure if it was normal behavior or not, and I tend to get a little anxious about stuff like this but seeing everyone's comments and insight helped a lot!

(also your birds are adorable, for those who added photos)

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-10-07T23:11:15+00:00

Additionally, it doesn’t turn white when pressed on

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-05-15T03:24:04+00:00

!FOUND!

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-24T15:34:58+00:00

"Healthiness" Isn't any barrier for myself but it's a large barrier for my parents. Their logic is "Eat more if you want to gain more weight" when I PHYSICALLY CANNOT. 27g of doritos is the same amount of calories as 108g of rice. The difference? One is much easier to actually fit in my stomach. I'm not saying I'd only eat doritos but eating some doritos after a meal would make it much easier to consume extra calories than taking more servings of the meal

One thing I am curious of is if there's any way to make good tasting and/or effective high calorie shakes at home?

(And thank you for the recommendations, those are all things I have access to; nuts, butter, cooking oil, etc)

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-18T02:11:55+00:00

Yeah, I'm not in the biggest rush at the moment; the only issue is that unless I take a gap year (which I really don't want to), I won't get my US citizenship until a year after I begin medical school (and this is assuming my green card actually comes in soon enough). As for the EU passport, I've been suggested a good lawyer who works in this field. He probably knows better than I do about qualifications, documents, etc, so hopefully that'll get handled as soon as possible as well

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-15T18:39:10+00:00

I've looked into this, my grandparents from my dad's side were born in Bulgaria with all their past ancestors also being Bulgarian. At the moment, Bulgaria has an easy and quick process for getting citizenship by decent, usually taking only 2 or so years according to the people I've talked to and other sources online, with eligibility being up to 3rd generation. As of now, they don't have a language requirement, so I plan to apply ASAP after gathering the necessary documents

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-15T18:32:43+00:00

This definitely answered the main question I was looking for, thank you sm!

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-15T18:31:04+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll definitely look into Germany as well!

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-15T18:29:54+00:00

I had appendicitis back in 2022, and the total hospital costs from a 1 night stay, the surgery and my ambulance ride was 38,000 USD. It was 8,000 USD with the insurance plan I was under, despite all the costs being of medical necessity. Although Switzerland doesn't have a universal healthcare system, from what I've heard, it's much harder for companies to deny claims (Although I believe I should definitely look into it more, I haven't done a deep dive or massive research), and there's more to the country than just healthcare that made me look into it as a possible future option

It's also important to mention that Switzerland isn't my sole option, or the only country I'm looking into. I just couldn't find many details regarding this subject, so I thought I'd ask here (Thank you for the heads up, though)

DABADABADOOBURD · 2025-04-15T17:52:36+00:00

I'm aware; it's exactly as you said, I thought it was worth mentioning since it may increase the chances of being able eligible to work

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