I bet many of them are self-diagnosed or assume that they have
ADHD has been significantly under diagnosed in the UK, and it’s not a surprise the busiest city in the country has higher rates of it.
Good. This medication does wonders for people with ADHD.
This weirdly enough tracks with what I’ve very recently noticed among my social groups.
One friend of mine thought he had ADHD. His girlfriend has it, so he went in to check. He got diagnosed for it. My US-based girlfriend thought she might have it and, she did indeed get diagnosed for it. Both of these happened in the past few months. And, before both those incidents, quite a lot of people I’d consider closer friends tend to have some level of neurodivergance. One of my housemates has had ADHD for years.
I myself notice I can be a bit scatter-brained – I get easily distracted focusing, plus I’ll often rapidly forget to do stuff due to my present focus unless it gets written down in to do lists. My brother can be similar and our family kind of lightly prod us about it. We both agree we probably have undiagnosed ADHD in some form.
Maybe the pandemic causing many jobs to shift to WFH made some people’s difficulty to focus on tasks a lot clearer to spot, and now there’s more of an open discussion going on around it? Idk though, I’m not a doctor. But it’s interesting to read this when I’ve never really noticed ADHD in particular, then the last few months, suddenly I’m realising quite a few people I know have it. Maybe I should look into a diagnosis lol.
I went undiagnosed throughout my childhood. In my early 20s, I realized I had symptoms due to being forgetful, impulsive, and having trouble focusing or hyper focusing. Testing showed I was borderline.
For the first few years on it, didn’t need a high amount – 10-20mg, and only for work.
Got rediagnosed earlier and the assessment was a much more definitive claim.
It was such a hassle and the wait time in the UK is crazy though. If I didn’t have my first diagnosis from Canada, I would’ve waited 3+ years for a prescription.
Urgh… I want to know if the meds would help me. I’ve been diagnosed autistic and the psychiatrist said I could do with an ADHD assessment too but I don’t think I can handle the whole wait again….
Here goes the government publishing more hit pieces.
They’ve been doing it since 2022 because they want to cut services.
It’s pathetic and people are falling for it.
I went to get diagnosed with ADHD, came back with diagnosed depression
I think this is a fantastic thing because the medication is life changing. I do think the increase might be partly down to a greater understanding of how ADHD presents in women.
I’d always struggled with self motivation, was massively disorganised, had no sense of time, poor short term memory, loved to procrastinate, and would hyper fixate on things and get lost in my own thoughts. I really struggled at school where I was constantly reminded I was meeting my potential, and academically things got easier at university but living alone was so hard I assumed there must be something seriously wrong with me. I spoke to various doctors and therapists and have tried what felt like every anti-depressant under the sun. I was told I might have bipolar disorder, I’m depressed, it’s just anxiety, it’s to do with my period.
I spent years on SSRIs which did fuck all and whenever I communicated this to my Doctors, they’d either up my dose or just switch me to a different SSRI.
Eventually when I was 29 I saw a GP who listened to my symptoms and rather than prescribing me another antidepressant, took me off them as he believed it would be best to work out what it was we were treating before he attempted to treat it. He listened to me over a number of sessions and then suggested ADHD. It’d never occurred to me before that, but from what he said and reading about it after it sounded spot on.
I got an official diagnosis at 30 and have now been taking medication for about a year. It has absolutely changed my life. I can focus at work, my emails don’t feel overwhelming, things like laundry don’t feel like mammoth task. I’m a more confident, articulate person and I’m now frequently praised for my efficiency. I keep in touch with family and friends more.
The medication truly has been life changing, I don’t think I appreciated how hard everything was until it wasn’t. I’m glad more people are getting prescriptions because why continue to struggle when you don’t need to?
No idea how people are getting diagnosed, I’ve been on a wait list for 2 years!
A massive, constantly changing city full of people working high pressure jobs that require them to always be on the move and taking in information?? Colour me surprised ADHD people are like a moth to a flame here (it’s me, I’m the moth)
Am undiagnosed, only just realised I probably have it about a year and a half ago, I’m 33. Already this realisation has changed my life and my mental well being, I’m hoping eventually getting diagnosed and medicated will finally help me become a functioning person who’s not clinging on to adulthood for my dear life.
I’m convinced more people are neurodivergent than we think. Think of how many “odd” people you meet who are eccentric or clearly have strange coping strategies/difficult to deal with. Some people are just arseholes, but I reckon the majority just have bad coping mechanisms for their neurodivergent brains.
social media is rotting our brains and all we do is crack on ADHD medicine. Sad 🙁
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I bet many of them are self-diagnosed or assume that they have
ADHD has been significantly under diagnosed in the UK, and it’s not a surprise the busiest city in the country has higher rates of it.
Good. This medication does wonders for people with ADHD.
This weirdly enough tracks with what I’ve very recently noticed among my social groups.
One friend of mine thought he had ADHD. His girlfriend has it, so he went in to check. He got diagnosed for it. My US-based girlfriend thought she might have it and, she did indeed get diagnosed for it. Both of these happened in the past few months. And, before both those incidents, quite a lot of people I’d consider closer friends tend to have some level of neurodivergance. One of my housemates has had ADHD for years.
I myself notice I can be a bit scatter-brained – I get easily distracted focusing, plus I’ll often rapidly forget to do stuff due to my present focus unless it gets written down in to do lists. My brother can be similar and our family kind of lightly prod us about it. We both agree we probably have undiagnosed ADHD in some form.
Maybe the pandemic causing many jobs to shift to WFH made some people’s difficulty to focus on tasks a lot clearer to spot, and now there’s more of an open discussion going on around it? Idk though, I’m not a doctor. But it’s interesting to read this when I’ve never really noticed ADHD in particular, then the last few months, suddenly I’m realising quite a few people I know have it. Maybe I should look into a diagnosis lol.
I went undiagnosed throughout my childhood. In my early 20s, I realized I had symptoms due to being forgetful, impulsive, and having trouble focusing or hyper focusing. Testing showed I was borderline.
For the first few years on it, didn’t need a high amount – 10-20mg, and only for work.
Got rediagnosed earlier and the assessment was a much more definitive claim.
It was such a hassle and the wait time in the UK is crazy though. If I didn’t have my first diagnosis from Canada, I would’ve waited 3+ years for a prescription.
Urgh… I want to know if the meds would help me. I’ve been diagnosed autistic and the psychiatrist said I could do with an ADHD assessment too but I don’t think I can handle the whole wait again….
Here goes the government publishing more hit pieces.
They’ve been doing it since 2022 because they want to cut services.
It’s pathetic and people are falling for it.
I went to get diagnosed with ADHD, came back with diagnosed depression
I think this is a fantastic thing because the medication is life changing. I do think the increase might be partly down to a greater understanding of how ADHD presents in women.
I’d always struggled with self motivation, was massively disorganised, had no sense of time, poor short term memory, loved to procrastinate, and would hyper fixate on things and get lost in my own thoughts. I really struggled at school where I was constantly reminded I was meeting my potential, and academically things got easier at university but living alone was so hard I assumed there must be something seriously wrong with me. I spoke to various doctors and therapists and have tried what felt like every anti-depressant under the sun. I was told I might have bipolar disorder, I’m depressed, it’s just anxiety, it’s to do with my period.
I spent years on SSRIs which did fuck all and whenever I communicated this to my Doctors, they’d either up my dose or just switch me to a different SSRI.
Eventually when I was 29 I saw a GP who listened to my symptoms and rather than prescribing me another antidepressant, took me off them as he believed it would be best to work out what it was we were treating before he attempted to treat it. He listened to me over a number of sessions and then suggested ADHD. It’d never occurred to me before that, but from what he said and reading about it after it sounded spot on.
I got an official diagnosis at 30 and have now been taking medication for about a year. It has absolutely changed my life. I can focus at work, my emails don’t feel overwhelming, things like laundry don’t feel like mammoth task. I’m a more confident, articulate person and I’m now frequently praised for my efficiency. I keep in touch with family and friends more.
The medication truly has been life changing, I don’t think I appreciated how hard everything was until it wasn’t. I’m glad more people are getting prescriptions because why continue to struggle when you don’t need to?
No idea how people are getting diagnosed, I’ve been on a wait list for 2 years!
A massive, constantly changing city full of people working high pressure jobs that require them to always be on the move and taking in information?? Colour me surprised ADHD people are like a moth to a flame here (it’s me, I’m the moth)
Am undiagnosed, only just realised I probably have it about a year and a half ago, I’m 33. Already this realisation has changed my life and my mental well being, I’m hoping eventually getting diagnosed and medicated will finally help me become a functioning person who’s not clinging on to adulthood for my dear life.
I’m convinced more people are neurodivergent than we think. Think of how many “odd” people you meet who are eccentric or clearly have strange coping strategies/difficult to deal with. Some people are just arseholes, but I reckon the majority just have bad coping mechanisms for their neurodivergent brains.
social media is rotting our brains and all we do is crack on ADHD medicine. Sad 🙁
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