Psych told me I was gonna die young what do I do?
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So I went to my psychiatrist appointment and it was horrible. She was a hour late to the appointment and the entire session was her being rude to me. For context im a 23m 5’11 and 165 im active and this appointment was a phone call. For context I was seeing this psych a year ago when I first started treatment , I was having issues with 5mg Adderal (it was making me very anxious and it was dropping my blood sugar at work and I almost passed out) so I quit seeking medicated help for a year to work on some of the fears it caused. After a year of a lot of work I feel those fears are back I spoke with this psych about starting a non stimulant like stratera, Ive known people who’s it helped and it seem like the best option for someone with inattentive ADHD. My psych DIDNT like this and kept telling me it wasn’t going to work, and kept trying to push a stimulant, I was really uncomfortable with this as when I asked for more info about the medicine she would reply with“it’s not gonna work” and not really discuss what patients see from it/side effects. She also told me a lot of Adderal wasn’t FDA approved and a lot of stimulants were not regulated well, and started telling me that my experience with Adderall was most likely cause I have a hole in my heart I don’t I have never had a heart murmur and no doctor has ever picked that up from a session with me, I have no idea where she came to that conclusion as I just told her the meds made me anxious and almost pass out once. But she was Insistent I had a hole in my heart and was gonna die young, this really started after I kinda advocated i wanted a non stimulant and I wasn’t interested in a stimulant at this time. Her argument was she used to work in some cardiology related field and worked with doctors who in her words “were good about hearts” The whole thing freaked me the fuck out I did get my stratera but I don’t think any of this was remotely normal. What should I do im freaked out about my meds again and worried
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- Subreddit
- r/ADHD
- Author
- u/Few-Amphibian-6084
- Posted
- Feb 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM UTC
AI Analysis
- Medication
- atomoxetine, amphetamine (Adderall)
- Condition
- ADHD, inattentive ADHD, anxiety (med side effect)
- Barrier
- gatekeeping
- Geography
- us likely