Like, if its nots public health system its obviusly price-gated for obvious reasons (it can be a commodity or boutique diagnosis for the rich and connected to get their sweet-sweet pharma speed)
I take arguably the sweetest or 2nd sweetest of that sweet-sweet pharma speed on prescription so lets not get into the the whole speed semantics for those of us otherwise inclinced
Edit: some advice- skip your first appointment on accident. It seems counterintutitive but its actually completely intuitive and expected for an actual ADHD person. If I was a psychiatrist I woupd almpst expect or come to expect people who end up diagnosed to do that haha
They have to be able o diagnose tho, and often thats only psychiatrists.
Theres an entire different use case for psychologists for when you sctually want to improve your habits/behaviors but the first order of business for most undiagnosed is to gdt that D…X!. I have all that done so I’m not the usual audience
Psychologists diagnose, psychiatrists prescribe meds. Rarely you can go to just a psychiatrist, but it’s not the standard pattern, and you risk being perceived as a drug seeker.
Start with a psychologist - let them do their job. When you have them on your side it’s a whole lot easier for a psychiatrist to justify medication.
Im from a public system and you absolutely go to a psychiatrist firsf, lots of psychologists make bank when they cant prescribe anything and to some degree its not a sure thing their dx is a bigboy dx thats enables access to meds
Psychiatrists definitely prescribediagnose . Access to psychologists is far more “boutique” and discretionary. Its like me saying i have (can afford) weekly freudian psycoanalysis sessions or whatever, I doubt a psychiatrist is going to care unless they’ve personally evaluated you
Theres a huge risk if you go ymthat route you’re gonna get gypped