"wildly unfair and kind of inhumane"

I’ve gotten back into the habit of checking the news in the morning as I slowly wake up, still comfy cosy in bed. Not for very long. Not enough to consider it doomscrolling. Just to peek at whatever’s in the headlines, laugh at the DUP if they’re involved in something, and move on with my day. Today there’s a story about ADHD treatment in Northern Ireland. Or the lack of it, rather. It’s where the title comes from. It goes into a couples expenses for paying privately (4k a year) and mentions how we basically don’t have a dedicated system for treating adults. Like Rebecca Bryson said in the article, “once you turn 18, you’re on your own”. I was told the same thing around a decade ago when I finally got an assessment. Once we were done, the woman I was talking to said, ‘You have it, but I don’t know if you’ll want a referral for anything further because all our resources are for kids. We can’t really help you or give you medication since you’re an adult’. To say I was disappointed and…