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Getting through all the comments but to clarify my timeline is

Self reffer to GP (brand new GP who passed to MH team)

Face to face meet with the MH nurse who came back to me after 48 hours and said and this is a direct quote "you do have almost all the ADHD indicators but since you have managed to get more than one degree we don't feel it's debilitating enough" she then went on to say that I clearly do have ADHD and I manage and the only reason that I was presenting at that time was due to loosing my dad suddenly making my symptoms worse but that when my greif goes away I'll be fine. In this assesment it was also noted that I have extremely riged and disordered eating and the sensory profile of someone with autism. But I can make friends and seem to have empathy (omg when will this stereotype die). My bloods were taking and I had almost zero b12 zero folic acid and zero any other needed vitimans. (I only eat beige food and I only drink red coke).
It was discussed that my eating disorder didn't need further investigation because I was over weight and I was prescribed vitamins to take.

I became suicidal. My husbands employer was wonderful and gifted us private healthcare for all his hard work during the pandemic. I spoke with a vitality GP who put me onto their mental health specialist. They said this does sound like ADHD but we can't assess that because it's preexisting since I spoke to the NHS. But they did do the research for me and recommended my current clinic as they have an NHS partnership. I never went looking for a ADHD diagnosis because honestly I thought my main issues came from autism I had never considered both.


I then was assessed and diagnosed by a phycologist who specialises in autism and ADHD. I gave her my school report and honestly reading back it's always been ripping out of me now I understand how females present.


I then started meds in October. They were life changing and and ideas that I was looking in the wrong place fell away. If I didn't need the stimulant meds then surely I would feel speedy and I wouldn't be able to take them and nap?

It was like when Bradly cooper takes the drug in limitless and feels his brain connect. I could literally access skills I haven't be able to for years. I sat on the floor that night in my newly organised house and cried and cried for all the struggles I had to do not knowing my brain was disabled.

But as we all know the tale often doesn't end that quickly or happily. My only real side effects on elvase was loss of appetite and the volume going up on my sensory issues. (I can tell you not being able to cover your wrists or ankles in a Glasgow winter when you can't even have a wee soup is rough).

So after 6 months on them (I'm shit with money because of the ADHD) I couldn't afford regular meds reviews as well as the scripts and I realised I had lost almost 6 stone. I had to get my wedding dress taken in, when I bout it in 2019 it was too tight.

So I switched to what I thought was xaggatin (turns out I've actually been prescribed xenidate).

Now through all this my GP has rereffed me to NHS Riverside house for reassessment by the actual ADHD team. I've had an hour long assesment with a second mental health nurse who feedback after consulting with her phycologist they recommend I seek autism assemsnt and they have reffered me to the mental health dietary team at stobhill.

So I'm now on 3 separate NHS waitlist as the shared care agreement is something my GP won't accept.



I get why this is happening I have a master's in Autism I know most mental health nurses would kill to have the time to do. I don't want to burden the NHS but my undiagnosed unsupported neurodiversity is killing me.

I may have 3 degrees and wash my hair once a week (this is 100% due to shame I would likey never wash it if noone saw me) that doesn't mean my ADHD isn't debilitating. I work an hourly rate job, I live in one of Scotland most deprived postcodes and without the safety net that I have the impulsively and rejected sensitive Dysmorphophobia I struggle with would have killed me in my 20s. It put a bottle of pills in my hands enough times to come very very close.


Now there's my overshare and I'll finish by saying I've met NURSES who don't even understand the female presentation of a heart attack. I've met some that can smell diseases and would walk on fire for their paitents one person telling me no is not going to discourage me from getting the help I need and have paid for my entire life. We won't even get into how let down I've been by the NHS and education system to get to my late 30s as a malnourished woman in Glasgow

Sorry but this is my life we are all discussing and sometimes invalidating here.