Dad claims failed ADHD service drove him to brink of suicide after repeatedly prescribing the wrong medication

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A loving dad claims he was pushed to the brink of suicide after a failed ADHD service repeatedly made mistakes with his medication.

The 34-year-old - whom we are only naming as Andy - suffered what he describes as a ‘massive breakdown’ as a result of the continual errors, leaving him with ‘horrible scarring’ from the self-harm he was driven to.A survivor of childhood sexual abuse he was diagnosed with ADHD - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - as a child, but later ‘fell through the cracks’ in the care system and was left to cope with his condition best he could as an adult.

However, he was referred to Heywood-based LANCuk after moving to Whitworth, near Rochdale, in 2018, which confirmed he had ADHD and began prescribing him medication.

He began taking Medikinet after finding two other drugs - Elvanse and Medikinet XL - ‘didn’t agree’ with him. While this was effective, Andy says they would ‘constantly’ send him prescription Medikinet XL, not send him enough tablets, or not send the prescription at all. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community He says the problem went on for two years, ultimately leading to him suffering a ‘massive breakdown’ around Christmas 2020, when he was sent the wrong prescription. “In the end it caused me that much stress and that much angst I had a breakdown and it ruined my life,” said Andy. “It absolutely ruined my life.” Andy, who also suffers from borderline personality disorder (BPD) due to the abuse he suffered as a child, gives a harrowing description of the torment he was then plunged into - including self harming to ‘slow my head down’. “My wife was having to sit up at night to make sure I was okay, because I was having nightmares about the abuse