Kaiser is particularly bad for this. I personally filed a complaint against my doctor with the state medical board because he said his only training in ADHD was in medical residency over a decade ago, before the current DSM was published, yet he felt he could rule out ADHD, and without addressing any DSM criteria. I have ADHD-PI and was in a severe crash that had induced comas and TBI. No psychiatrist should go a decade without continuing medical education on this common disorder and people need to let it be known that Kaiser is a problem. They are hiring people without training and people who aren't doctors seem to be telling them what decisions to make.

Good luck! Let me know if you find a solution!

@@publius9350 thanks. Yea, kaiser is terrible. I went on a big pharma roller coaster of all sorts of mood stabilizers and ssri’s…it was bad. Kaisers behavioral health should be abolished, they only care about you if you want to remove your genitalia. If I had the money to sue them I would. What they’re doing is dangerous.

Yes this is a topic I've never found any decent information on even though it is very common to have ADHD with a comorbid personality disorder. Would be great if additude could make some videos on that.

Because we're not in Austria, where you have to go to the desert, if you missed to say doctor to a doctor.

Nurse practitioners, even when they have earned a terminal degree, often meet pushback when they use the title “doctor.” A nurse practitioner was recently sued in California for using the title. I know, it isn’t fair.

'Doctor' in psychiatry, fully schooled (in the USA totally up to 12-13 years, whereof the last four years in a residency program. After that you can take additional fellowship programs, like Addiction psychiatry or Neuropsychology. Upon that you need a MD (Doctor of Medicine) or OD (Doctor of Osteopathic) from Medical school, a Medical license and a Certificate required if you want to work as psychiatrist. That's a lot. I can certainly agree with that a Nurse Practitioner should have a better title than the ungainly Nurse Practitioner, and "Nurse" isn't right, or boring NP. Not "Doctor", but something that shows how much studies and competence they have. Depending on which way they take before acceptance to the Nurse Practitioner courses, 3-4 years if I got it right, and the Nurse Practitioner courses, around two years and another for additional courses. And a series of tests to be authorized. Up to SEVEN years. That's what it takes to become a general practitioner ("doctor") in many countries. Anyway, who isn't a fully schooled and trained physician or psychiatrist can't title themselves as Doctor. Doctor Brown has an additional PhD, Philosophy Doctor, for published research, if I remember correctly. (In Sweden the title confusion is practically eliminated. A physician, surgeon, psychiatrist or dentist are "läkare", which translates to "healer"😳, but means more "someone who makes health" (grammatically incorrect 😆, the meaning is clear, I hope). Or we use the specialist title, orthopedist, psychiatrist, gynecologist etc. But "tandläkare" - tooth läkare, barnläkare - children läkare (yes, 'barn' means child/children 😄) Colloquial 'doctor' (doktor) can be used, like people did 40-50 and more years ago. Otherwise 'Doktor' is an academic title. )