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Hi guys. Firstly, sorry if this doesn't make much sense but...
I recently spoke with my GP (I'm from the UK) regarding getting tested for ADHD as an adult. They sent me for a referral and today I got a letter today stating that the NHS are no longer testing adults for ADHD as of June 2020, so my referral was immediately cancelled. This has left me a little deflated, as I just wanted to know. My wife tried to comfort me by telling me I've "got this far in life without an answer," but it just feels a little disheartening. Should I not seek further answers? Is it a waste of my time? I'm just not sure where to go now with this. __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------- I look up to the sky, but my eyes burn.... |
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I'm from the States so I'm not sure how to best advise you to move forward, but I would say that you shouldn't give up. There are likely other ways to get seen and evaluated, as I doubt they're going to stop diagnosing ADHD in the UK completely. Maybe you need to see a specialist instead of going through your GP. Also, testing isn't necessary to get an ADHD diagnosis but sometimes doctors feel like they need it in order to do so. You may want to talk with your GP directly and inform them of what happened. My guess is that it would be best to seek out a therapist or psychiatrist to get them to help with diagnosis. If that's an option. Again, I'm not sure how the system works across the pond.
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Oh, how disappointing that must be, Unplugmealready. I would be very disheartened if this happened to me.
Quitelylost has some good ideas and I don't have anything better to offer. Are there free online tests for adult ADHD? Are they reliable and reputable? I don't know. So very, very sorry I could not be helpful to you. I think your disappointment is completely understandable. -- Yao Wen |
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Thanks, Yao. Just having a few words of understanding is helping.
I have done a number of online tests, and watched various YouTube videos on it. I understand self diagnosis and googling most things leads to you convincing yourself that you have whatever you searched for. But I also would just like an answer. Not exactly closure, but just to know if I am right or just being a hypochondriac, you know?. __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------- I look up to the sky, but my eyes burn.... |
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I was diagnosed as a child. The symptoms effect your life wether or not you're diagnosed. I think it's good to keep looking up the symptoms and if you suffer from them, has it been sense childhood or is it recent? ADHD is something you are born with. So how long have you been this way? Also, ADHD is actually a superpower that the common world is afraid of.
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I have always been a day dreamer and I always had a tendency to zone out if someone was talking to me for a long time. Especially if it was something I really should've been focusing on. I also have a tendency to spend like 3 months making craft things, then swap to building PC's and making custom linux builds, then doing something else and so on. And my memory is atrocious. Ask me to do something while passing me in the corridor? I'll agree to it, but you bet I'll have forgotten it by the time I get back to my desk. I see so many videos on ADHD (By the way, I've kinda gotten sidetracked on that and stopped all of a sudden recently) and it almost feels like others that have ADHD have very similar traits, but maybe turned up even more than me. Maybe I have a mild version of it? I dunno. But I do know that I look at these traits and think "yup, that's me". __________________ -------------------------------------------------------------- I look up to the sky, but my eyes burn.... |
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can you go private ot or is it nhs
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Somehow I ended up here reading your description above and like you thought "yup, that's me". I'm on furlough at the moment because of the Covid-19, and just thinking on the prospect of going back to work. I find work mentally draining and increasingly difficult. My whole demeanour has changed for the better since I've had "time off". To an extent you learn to adapt to your "mental deficiency" for want of a better description. Sometimes you don't, and sometimes with dire consequences. Life seems a continual mental strain and you don't understand why you can't many of the things that appear normal to other people. Life feels unfulfilling. We do the best that we can but continually question why we struggle. I suppose that's what brought me here. I've wondered if I have ADD and a couple of online tests seem to confirm that I do. That brings me to the question "So now what?" Just thought I'd share. PS. Corny, but I've always known I was different. |
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