How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success:
1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a husband to drag you to the doctor when you’re at your lowest and argue with them
2) finally get escalated to a psychologist who takes a few months to be sure there’s definitely something wrong. She will recommend the GP to prescribe ADHD medication
3) Your prescription mysteriously disappears into the system. After several attempts to follow up that take months, and several confused phone calls from your psychologist to the GP, it turns out the GP refuses to authorize it because *shrug* reasons. Maybe if a psychiatrist also signs off on it?
4) You attempt to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Every psychiatrist in the Netherlands is booked until 2034.
5) Finally, after a dozen rounds of pleading and nagging, you get a mysterious phone call from an unknown number. They give you an address and tell you to be there at 7 in the evening.
6) You find yourself at the door of a historic art deco mansion in the most exclusive district of Amsterdam. There is absolutely no indication that this is a medical practice. You ring the doorbell. Nothing happens. You wait nervously, and try again.
7) The door creaks open. An elderly man wearing crocs stands before you. He silently bids you follow him up a winding staircase to a parlor filled with a thousand thick and aging books in every tongue of the earth and perhaps a few also of the angels. They concern prophecy, and music, and poetry, and the apocalypse.
8) In a thin whisper of a voice barely to be heard, he asks your name, and where you were born. He slowly, very slowly, so slowly that you think you have died and this is purgatory, types this into a computer. It is in his lap because his desk is covered with strange devices beyond identification.
9) He tells you the prescription will be ready for pickup tomorrow.
Cassandra is only carbon now
Unknown parent • • •Chu 朱
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I wish I was half as interesting as you. I'm a woman with two engineering degrees who couldn't figure out why nobody was listening to us technical people so I ditched that and did a PhD in communication and studied why nobody listened to doctors and scientists during a pandemic.
So now I'm an expert in why people ignore good scientific information but still have little clue on how to overcome this without a boatload of money and the overthrow of the oligarchy.
ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /#
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Hey, I'm Celeste, a non-binary/trans* computer toucher who is studying computer science. I'm not really an expert in anything but I've been building a home lab for the last 8 years that is starting to fill up my basement and my office. It's a glorious, well-optimized mess.
I've started programming with the age of 7, am proficient in 8 programming languages, and started home-labbing long before I started studying. I had a lot of time between finishing my high school degree and starting at university during the pandemic to learn math, writing good code, self-hosting, networking, security, etc.
(Don't ask me about my home lab, unless you are prepared for a 6h presentation)
I have worked at a data center before as a (junior) system integrator and just started my first real IT job at a startup, which is building a software solution for managing and monitoring complex IT infrastructures using, graphs, and "AI"™
Jacqueline
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •gebastel
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I don't have a studied yet, but i do stuff with computers, bikes and politics. And I do looooong thinking sessions about society and humans (while always trying to make the live better for every living beeing). Last thing is somehow neurodivergency related ?!
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in reply to gebastel • • •Fried Chicken
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in reply to Fried Chicken • • •Stargeezer Smith
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I'm mostly old, turned 80. I'm becoming knowledgeable about arthritic knees, and bruises from blood thinners.
I'm trained in physics, math, computer science, and I've a dusty old MBA diploma somewhere.
My driving interest since I was a kid is astronomy, and I still study it most days.
Luqa 🦄
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I am Luqa, or Lucas (Lucaas), or Luke, or whatever name people call me. My reputation as a trans man is just one of the many ways that people see me. Gender is less central to my own existence these days, and more of a reflection that others see in my mirror, and is about the viewer. 🪞
I am discovering more and more about myself than just that I'm a 48 year old mother, grandpa, writer, and activist who had a fine career writing code as a software engineer, who had a long & scary trauma path to arrive here and Now to recognize my own Self in the mirror.
My expertise is related to peace, though I only discovered inner peace even existed 6 months ago - I thought peace was from external sources. It turns out that CPTSD symptoms can become quieter, and I have recently had the privilege of helping others reclaim their imagination from the pain of nightmares induced by the world around us, and the messages we have internalized about our Self, our inner identity. I had only glimpsed hints that this idea might not be a myth, before that.
I have set about learning more about the myriad of paths to inner peace through a healing journey, so that I can help enable others to find this same feeling that I have. It turns out, that most of the people in my world reexperience their trauma on a near constant basis, like I used to. So I get to live my childhood dreams of being a Unicorn that influences the world for good by spreading joy and peace to those who ask for my guidance.
I recently set into motion my plans to expand this healing work, in ways that align with my cognitive and physical disability needs (TBI, EDS, POTS, 20+ more 🧠🦓), and my desire to travel, *without* needing to try to capitalize on this freely offered gift of cooperative emotional labor.
I am currently weighing the benefits of becoming a mushroom guide, and what that will mean for my future. 🍄🦄
#AMA
Clara
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Hi, I'm Clara, and I have finally come to accept that I will never be an expert at anything, not nearly to the extent that other people are, but what I do bring to the table are opinions on technology, some humor, and that one YouTube video where I am very clearly not confident about what kind of relationship I want.
Also, I am like a truffle hunting pig for a random facts.
Willow
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Hi! I'll join the newbies on this novel-length thread. I'm Willow, "multi-queer," with a PhD in Lit, primarily focused on theater and poetry of the Renaissance/ early modern period. I'm currently teaching a summer writing course on performance theory. I'm not as expert on Women & Gender Studies/ queer theory as I'd like, but I taught a course on bodies a year ago and how they disrupt traditional categories, examining discourse and lit around queer bodies all the way from ancient Greece to #GretchenFelkerMartin
I'm also a sometimes poet/writer, a ttrpg DM, a historical linguistics and conlang nerd, and an amateur mushroom hunter and forager (though nothing like an expert). My gf and I are also pretty expert in movies from the 30s through 50s, from the awe-inspiring to the awful! (Shout out to my recent terrible idea to do "the wives of Cary Grant" double feature: Dream Wife and My Favorite Wife... do not watch!)
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in reply to Willow • • •Willow
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Kim Possible
Unknown parent • • •@raphaelmorgan Oh, great question. You can retain your expertise on the vinification side of things: the science of growing grapes and making wine.
The other side is keeping up with the current number and quality of wine houses, and each vintage for each region. Only with this continuous knowledge can you say, for instance, that Paul Hobbs is currently the best California Cabernet. (Is it now? Who knows?) Weather can ruin a whole harvest. Wineries, especially in California, often go broke, and you have to change your recommendations accordingly.
Also, you need a sharp memory to keep it all in your head, including updated information. At the same time (in fine dining) I had to keep up with the latest buzz on small batch bourbons and single malt scotches and whatever trends were hot, like more potato-sourced vodka than grain-sourced.
Morgan ⚧️
Unknown parent • • •Morgan ⚧️
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in reply to Morgan ⚧️ • • •Zemri
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Hi! I'm Emri!
I'm agender and pan
I'm a nurse and super passionate about supporting and teaching health literacy in the general public (God knows we need it)
That's my only "professional" info dump topic.
Nonprofessional topics are crochet and pokemon:)
Christy Marx Rambling Writer
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I'm a plain old White cis woman.
My areas of expertise are cats, writing for comics, writing for animation, writing for games, fantasy & sf.
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