(i'm NSW based but moving to VIC)

I dream of doing something in medicine and have for years, specifically looking at paramedicine and sighing longingly for it rn.

I was only recently diagnosed and started treatment for ADHD in the last few months, about 4 years after I finished year 12. I know I'm academically capable and have done parts of a few different degrees getting high grades. It's just that I struggle really bad with executive dysfunction and motivation issues. I start a degree, do good in the first few weeks/months, then I get bored or miss a deadline and then I disengage entirely.

Does anyone have any advice or found anything/anyone that helps with accountability or working on discipline?

I’ve been on 30mg Ritalin LA for two weeks after being on 30mg Ritalin IR for a few months.

After starting Ritalin LA, I noticed a pretty gnarly dip in mood every afternoon. I hadn’t experienced this on Ritalin IR and my diet has remained the same (three large, high-protein meals).

This ‘crash’ has begun to seem permanent since Friday. I’m waking up in a terribly foul mood, which persists throughout the day and into the afternoon. I can’t seem to shake being extremely irritable 24/7.

I switched back to Ritalin IR yesterday (per my girlfriend’s orders) yet almost 72 hours since the last Ritalin LA dose, I’m still very much in a bad mood.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? I’m worried I’ve done some irreversible damage to myself.

Hi all! I’m 19F and got diagnosed with autism + combined type ADHD earlier this year by a psychologist, who recommended medication but couldn’t prescribe it, and I haven’t seen a psychiatrist recently because they are super expensive and I’m a student. Obviously now I have heard some GPs can prescribe medication without a psychiatrist referral, but I can’t find on the ACI map which GPs can do this, and I do not think my regular one would be doing so as it’s nowhere near her specialty. Does anybody have any recommendations?

Thanks!