Newly diagnosed with ADHD and now on Ritalin

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5. Thanks.

I feel increasingly better about the situation. Upon reflection, I am able to articulate the reasons I was so profoundly destroyed by the entire situation. It's not the diagnosis, to me it also makes perfect sense and explains a lot in my life. It's the way it all went down. I feel entirely victimized by this doctor. I went to her for help, and I feel that I was treated like a dangerous criminal. I was essentially told I would be admitted into a psychiatric facility of some type, and I was given 36 hours to decide which one, no choice in the matter. She was either incompetent or grossly ignorant about what course of treatment would occur at the hospital, or she just lied to me. I was diagnosed in under ten minutes, and given the ultimatum less than 10 minutes later.

I was upset with myself because I didn't have the presence of mind to demand a second opinion. It just dawned on me today that I would never have found a doctor in 36 hours to give a second opinion.

It was a horrible experience, but I believe a lot of good is coming out of it, despite not because of this physician's violation if my trust. The hospital experience was actually invaluable, although I now realize that 80 percent of the work and progress there was correcting the damage done by this doctor.

So much for the Hypocratic Oath.