Privately diagnosed with ADHD a few years ago and onto a good medication regime. The service I used was great until about a year ago when it took on a massive NHS contract. Now it's so bad it's unreal. Literally cannot get through on the phones. Can't make an appointment. Can't request a prescription renewal. If I hadn't used them effectively before now I'd think they must be a scam operation.
I've been looking into transferring but actually almost all of the private providers now look a bit rickety and I don't want to pay a transfer fee just to end up back in the same position. I am thinking about approaching a local private psychiatrist but I know a lot of them take a dim view of adult diagnoses (I get it, I recognise all the issues, but this has worked for me and my quality of life since being on medication was transformed).
I can't believe I'm going to be cast back into the way things were before and I can't see a way forward. I know a person shouldn't have to pay for healthcare anyway and I'm lucky that I theoretically could but actually in practice it seems like nobody can get what they need to feel well. Why is feeling well seen as some decadent luxury?! I feel genuinely embarrassed calling around trying to get help for this.
(Also if you have an adult ADHD patient in private treatment would you be able to recommend your provider?)