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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

faark this system - It shouldn’t be a privilege to be able to seek help.

It's expensive to be ill, unfortunately, and a lot of healthcare still seems to treat mental health as a cosmetic thing, like teeth, or eyes.

Although there is a bitter irony in that to get diagnosed and treated for ADHD, you need to make a bunch of appointments and things, which someone with ADHD would struggle with.