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Fuck. That's not a story that's new to me, speaking generally, but I'm sorry you guys had to go through that. While I don't think it should matter too much where someone got their diagnosis and prescription, this is from the States, and I feel like that deserves additional weight.
I was already exploring private care, and groaning at the prices, honestly 200 pounds is far from how high it could have gone.
You'll often find that the usual contacts, namely secretaries and nurses, and occasionally GPs, can be less than well informed of the finer points of legality and regulation. It seems they were certainly wrong about whether this was a possible, but that did end up working in your favor for once.
It might have been £300/visit actually. I don't quite remember this was ten years ago.
Being an aristocrat's psychiatrist seems like nice work if you can get it.
Given that senior psychiatrists in the business of ADHD prescriptions can charge as high as 800 a go (at the least for the first visit), I don't think you need an aristocrat. Do that long enough and you can probably slip someone money to knight you.
I was looking at 400 for a new assessment to confirm that yes, I have ADHD, that would be done by a psychologist, and about the same for all the rest, including the psych.
£200/300 was the cost of her monthly base touching with the psychiatrist, about 50 minutes a session.
I did get an ADHD diagnosis in the US myself and merely paid $500 for the first workup and $200 per month for that sweet sweet Adderall.
Psychiatry sounds pretty sweet from a money perspective. Though I recall, maybe it was a monologue in The House of God, that it's one of the more boring career paths for an MD.
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