First you have to fill in a load of questionnaires about life and childhood and symptoms and whatever else, and get someone who knew you as a child to do one (I got my dad to), and someone who knows you now (my partner). The forms aren’t difficult per se, but they do involve dredging through memories and take a couple of hours (sop I put them off for a week).
Then you speak to a psychiatrist for… well they told me it would be 45 minutes but I got distracted a few times and it took an hour and a half. That was today, he confirmed that I do have adhd, specifically attention deficit presentation rather than hyperactivity, which is exactly . what Io expected him to say.
Next comes titration onto medication, and/or whatever other treatment options you go for. I’ve got for primarily medication because the other major option is CBT, and while that’s often really good (so long as you have a competent practitioner teaching you - I have heard horror stories), I have done that before for pain so know what the techniques would be.
The NHS waiting list is seven years so I went private. All in all it’s likely to cost me about £1000, and then fifty quid a year to check up on the prescription and make sure it’s still right.
Mine was different, only I did the assessment and it took 3 hours, I killed on the memory tasks, but on the listening ones I’d got distracted halfway through. There were questionnaires and they took forever, or felt like forever.
First you have to fill in a load of questionnaires about life and childhood and symptoms and whatever else, and get someone who knew you as a child to do one (I got my dad to), and someone who knows you now (my partner). The forms aren’t difficult per se, but they do involve dredging through memories and take a couple of hours (sop I put them off for a week).
Then you speak to a psychiatrist for… well they told me it would be 45 minutes but I got distracted a few times and it took an hour and a half. That was today, he confirmed that I do have adhd, specifically attention deficit presentation rather than hyperactivity, which is exactly . what Io expected him to say.
Next comes titration onto medication, and/or whatever other treatment options you go for. I’ve got for primarily medication because the other major option is CBT, and while that’s often really good (so long as you have a competent practitioner teaching you - I have heard horror stories), I have done that before for pain so know what the techniques would be.
The NHS waiting list is seven years so I went private. All in all it’s likely to cost me about £1000, and then fifty quid a year to check up on the prescription and make sure it’s still right.
Mine was different, only I did the assessment and it took 3 hours, I killed on the memory tasks, but on the listening ones I’d got distracted halfway through. There were questionnaires and they took forever, or felt like forever.