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One thing you might want to do is look into your local community mental health center - where you may be able to get some help. Also, some psychologist and psychiatrist work on a sliding scale. Try also contacting social servicee agencies for additional help. You may also contact the counselor at the college you graduated from for ideas.I am in a very similar situation, like yourself i have not found very promissing answers.
I am 25 and still trying to graduate college. However since starting medication (Adderall) a year ago, i am on a much faster path to graduation. However i do not have any insurance and even my generic meds cost me about 65 dollars a month.
What i am mostly worried about is what i am going to do after graduation. Right now i have free service for seeing the Dr through my University. Becuase Adderall is such a highly controlled substance there are no refils on perscriptions and i have to have an office visit every month. Once i graduate i do not know where to go where i can afford a doctors visit on top of perscriptrion costs. I have looked into it and social services for mental heath seems to sadly be non-existant. If anyone knows of a solution i would also be very glad to hear it.
I feel your pain!
I am a 22 year old recent college graduate. I am a miserable unemloyed loser with no health insurance. I am almost positive I have adhd. Some of my friends and professors have expressed concern and suggested that I get tested. I think my life would be so much better if I got tested and got the proper help and guidance. The problem is I have no health insurance. I'm in a catch 22. I don't have the attention span to get a freaking job but I need a full time job so I can get some f-ing health insurance and get tested. It takes me days to write just one cover letter. So I don't know what to do. Can I by my own insurance? How do I do that? I really really need help but my family isn't doing anything to help.
College was miserable for me. I've never read a book unless you count kid books. I have boxes of books that I've bought but never read. I think I've read about 4-10 pages of a million different books. I go to book stores all the time hoping that, "This time I will be able to read a book" but nothing ever gets better. I want soooooooo badly to enjoy a book but I can sit there for hours and hours and read only two pages. It's really frustrating that my brother who hates reading can read a required book for class. My brother can read a book he doesn't even want to read and I can't even read a book that I want to read. It's so unfair. I know I would have LOVED college if I had just had an attention span. Even after years of failure I still have a love for learning. I'm interested in politics and history. I wish I could pursue my love of learning but I can't so I am miserable and BORED. I have all this energy that's being stifled.
I hate my mother. I have spent my whole life listening to my mother yelling at me about how lazy and apathetic I am but I am the total opposite. I'm interested in so many things but I can't focus myself. I am ambitious and energetic but I can't seem to focus my energy. My aunt thinks I'm not the brightest crayon in the box. She tried to comfort me by saying, "You're not cut out to be a career woman but it's okay." I used to think I was stupid but now I'm beginning to think that maybe I am not so dumb. I managed to make it through college at least. That's not so bad for someone who can't concentrate on anything. However, I probably wouldn't have made it through college without the kindness of my professors. They were the ones who let me turn in my papers late. I always turned in my papers several weeks late. No matter how hard I tried I was always daydreaming in class, even when I was very interested in the material. Taking notes was always a disaster. My classmates would always have pages of notes while I only had a few lines. One of my profs described me as "going in eight different directions at once." Oddly enough, a lot of my professors absolutely loved me despite my terrible academic habits. I like to think it's maybe because they saw something in me. Maybe my professors loved my enthusiasm or maybe they saw some potential in me. I don't want to keep believing that I am stupid. I know I could have done a lot better in school if I had had an attention span. I feel like I was ripped off. I could have been happy but it was robbed from me.
So is there any way I can buy my own insurance? I'm thinking once I get tested and get help I will be able to find a job more easily. I can't afford the testing and medication on my own. I can't concentrate on anything. Even writing this simple message was a hard task. My mind was drifting when I was writing this. I have low self-esteem and I am very unhappy. Can someone please give me advice on health insurance, getting tested, coping with these problems, etc.? I am desperate and it would be nice to talk to someone who is in or has been in a similar situation.
scarygreengiant38315.8365393519The mental health center said could help our son at .monthly for services.No offered medacine help. We are going broke helping our son.They told us need full pschological test before can get help for him. People on GOVT. help get priority 1 the worker told us. rshn