Green Party of BC Leader Jane Sterk Supports Re Opening The BC Adult ADHD Clinic

Green Party of BC Leader Jane Sterk Supports Re Opening The BC Adult ADHD ClinicPost from: Adult ADD Strengths UPDATE: Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith did an article about the reopening of the BC adult ADHD clinic me and the BC politicians. The leader of the Green Party of BC  Jane Sterk Supports Re Opening The BC Adult ADHD Clinic. Great! That makes 3 of the 4 BC political party leaders that support it. As I mentioned in my previous post 6 Years ago in 2007, the BC Liberal government under then health minister George Abbott shut down the only provincial adult ADHD clinic in BC at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver after a 12-14 month long wait list for an entire year. Possibly politically embarrassing wait list? BC Liberals solution? Kill the clinic. No more wait list. Why didn’t/ don’t adult with ADHD speak up about this? They did and do. To ADHD coaches or adult ADHD support group leaders like me. And to others who work with ADHD like their doctors/psychiatrists/psychologists etc. But they won’t speak about it to you. Or politicians. Or reporters. Or health care bureaucrats. Because the stigma is too high and they’re worried about being harassed, discriminate or fired. Most BC medical professional have little to no training on ADHD and they’re not willing to speak up publicly in the vast, vast majority of cases. Most other people either think ADHD is not real, i.e., scientific illiterates, or over diagnosed (sometimes, but far more und...
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