Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

I’m honestly glad she may be getting the right help.

Believe me the wrong doctors can be worse than useless. I was made seriously ill by a medical misadventure two months ago by well-meaning doctors who hadn’t a clue about how to handle a person with a colectomy. I agree it needs doctors, but she hasn’t been helped by the ones she has seen so far.

Edit - I’ve suffered severe depression along with my MS diagnosis, I did get a very effective medication which deals with that, by pressurising my GP to re-consider a certain prescription.

She does herself believe she has ADHD, and wants a complete specialist evaluation for this. Of course she could have Bipolar, and sometimes people have dual diagnoses. I can see Ireland now offers very poor psychiatric services, this was not always the case though. My father got excellent treatment for his severe depression way back in the 70s and was able to see his great psychiatrist easily as were the other patients with depression etc whom I met at the hospital. All got full attention. Now it’s the begging bowl to get near any mental health. Are now, it’s all being farmed out to charities and done incompetent bodies like CAMHS

Attention-Deficit-Hyperactive Disorder. The pediatrician who attended me in infancy told my mother she believed I had this….. waaaay back in the 1960s. My mother’s response “at least she is not mentally retarded”. “She’s far from that” said Dr Victoria Coffey, a then very well-known paediatrician.

the attention deficit part happens when there is hyper-focus on one subject at hand, the attention diverts from some more important stuff that’s happening. It diverts at any time, it goes in tangents. Interest is gathered quickly, lost quickly. One can be driven and driven and driven, distracted by something else that garners attention. It often stops sleep, halts patience altogether. It’s not the most functional way of living, yet a person with it can be brilliant at times and have great imagination owing to the free flow of ideas. By same token mainstream, important stuff can be abandoned altogether. It goes in a pattern of circles. That woman resonated with me to some extent.

I think she needs a good neurological & psychiatric work up, and deserves it. Too many people in this country abandoned by services which have been relegated more to charity status.

I have started a thread re my first video of a series I plan to explain ileostomy in all its facets and especially the positivity about it, but also the practicalities that turn up.

I see it is an autoimmune reaction to strep in predisposed individuals. Bit like rheumatic fever type syndrome.

That’s an awful prospect for people’s independence, and I worry about myself currently. I don’t have the endurance to drive long distances, but most days can travel locally in my lovely easy-drive automatic CH-R. I dread when I’ll be forced to give up. Just not able for Dublin buses, get sent flying precariously, can’t reach the door as I just can’t walk the aisle in a moving bus. Train is fine once I have a seat, and it can be a fight to get a LUAS seat. Usually somebody gives me a seat immediately but if it’s filled with heads of young wand with faces stuck in their phones I can end up having to ask one to relinquish seat.