High school teacher (grade 9) one of my best students got diagnosed with "muh ADHD" this week. Here's what he told me.
The doctor (a GP) gave him a list of ten questions. It went something like this:
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Do you sometimes struggle to finish tasks?
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Do you sometimes have problems paying attention in class?
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Do you sometimes get bored?
Who the F is going to say no to any of this? Anyway, he got diagnosed with muh ADHD and now he's on pills, probably for life. The pills he gets are amphetamines by the way. Yes, really.
I'm a fucking teacher and I get bored by my class sometimes. Guess I need speed too.
This is 90%+ student by the way. Imagine diagnosing a complex mental condition (if it even exists) in five minutes, tops, and then being put on pills for life.
Absolutely disgusting.
I heard you're soon retiring. Teach the kid how to do business, how to read the market, and how to meet the customers needs. Seriously though Canada is a communist shithole. Today I saw a video that's going viral about a guy being pulled over to be forcefully taken to a shrink for evaluation because a doctor certified him. WTF!
Yeah never EVER tell a doctorr you're suiciddal/feeling depressed. They can LITERALLY destroy your entire life and you have no recourse. You know in the US when you can sue a doctor for malpractice? There is no such thing in Canada. If a doctor messes up, you are looking at 5-6 years of legal procedures (100k minimum) to MAYBE get 10-15k payout at the end. And the losing party doesn't pay the legal fees of the other party here.
If you tell a doctor you are suicidal, they can take away your driving license and you are looking at years of, well, medication+muh shrink + legal fight.
They'll take your guns away here. And severely cut off your access to jobs.
Depends on regional laws too, and how much you can trust a doctor, but generally you're right. There's usually laws on the books that allow, possibly even encourage a doctor to break doctor-patient confidentiality if they think a patient might be a "danger to themselves" (or others).
Also here doctors can inject you against your will. During COVID, they actually were getting ready to send police to people's door to drag them out for mandatory clotshots