Hi to anyone UK based! 👋 I'm Steve, based in Nottingham, England, and I was officially diagnosed with combined ADHD in April this year. This might help someone out there in the UK, so going to quickly share the process I went through recently to get my diagnosis and medication. (Disclaimer: I ‘think’ this is 100% the right order and accurate, obviously for a stupid adhd brain and we all know what that means for memory. Also please note, this is just my own experience to provide context on what the process looked like for me, Happy to answer any questions but I’m not a clinician and the meds can affect people in different ways.) Firstly, Call your GP and request to start an ADHD evaluation via the ‘Right To Choose’ process 💡➡️ This is important because it means that your GP will take over your care once you finish your tritation (more on that in a second), so you’re not restricted to just one private company providing meds. You then will be provided a link which will provide you a list of local providers available to take on the initial assessment. Mine showed me a waiting time for the assessment, and a waiting time for the medication. I went with Harrow Health. Check reviews online, but don’t read too much into all of them just check for any repeating patterns. With HH some reviews were varied but nearly all said the clinicians were excellent. HH had a 0 week waiting time for both appointments and medication waiting time, so was a no brainer really. Once you choose your provider, they’ll give you a letter to download to fill In Your details and provide to your GP, then once the GP surgery (this was the longest delay in the whole thing for me) Upon receipt of this, you then are sent a link for your provided (Harrow Health in my case) and you’ll have a few things to fill in, and there’s also a couple of forms for people close to you to fill in. I can’t remember exactly but they’re looking for evidence from your childhood (parent to full for example) and present day evidence. If you can’t get a parent to fill in the childhood part don’t worry, I couldn’t (it gives an option to N/A it) and just explained to my clinician in my appointment, and she said we’d just have to cover childhood aspects on the call.Once the call got booked, it all moved pretty quickly. I was on the phone with the clinician for a couple of hours before she confirmed my combined diagnosis, and gave me a code to take to a local pharmacy to pick up my medication.The tritiation phase is the process of slowly increasing the dosage over a few weeks to see your reaction. I was started on 18mg Methylphenidate, and was booked on a second call for roughly two weeks time. At that call they then upped my meds after another 10-14 days (18mg-36mg-54mg) and after a third call when they were happy with my reaction to the meds, my details got passed to the gp to then take over my care.Things to note:

If you are an old English cronie like me then this is for you… And I’m singing

My partner loves sitting in silence (non ADHD) but I can't stand it. Is that a symptom of ADHD? I have music on at work and on my walk to work too. Non stop, all day, every day.

Hello everyone. I am 50 and did not discover that I have ADHD until 9 months ago. I was talking with my doctor about help for my 7 year old and she recommended I get tested too. I went from being broken my whole life to finding out that there is a method to my madness. After extensive testing I got slapped with some labels that I guess will follow me around in my medical charts. ADHD-PI and AuDHD/2e. I knew I struggled with some things, but WTF!!! On the spectrum was always some distant topic on X and ADHD I just assumed was the spazzed out kids in school....(oh wait, I was that kid)💡. So now, all I have to do is pop an Adderall in the morning and I am magically fixed right?.....Dead wrong. It turns out my brain fights itself with the dual diagnosis. Since then my life has spiraled. My wife drained the family savings dropping cash on a newer Jeep, then filed for divorce, and basically abandoned our son; and every listed reason she cannot live with us is an ADHD trait. She has since gone on a party pilgrimage re-living her 30's. So here I am picking up the pieces of my life, adjusting to single parenting, and trying to resurrect my business. I have high hopes for this group and look forward to learning more about myself. I wish to learn how to amplify my gifts while minimizing the obstacles. The goal is to learn to apply lessons to myself so I may help my son as he grows into his talents and trials. I wish everyone in here success on your personal journeys of discovery and self mastery.

Good morning, afternoon or evening Hunters, One of the most mind boggling aspects of life, for me, are relationships with others. Currently, I am single and chose to leave a wonderful human being, to live on my own. Why? because before my diagnosis I felt he deserved better than what I could offer in a relationship . This was the right decision then, for me to make. We had been a couple for 17 years and have a 13 year old daughter. A year and a half on, our relationship is healthier and we have both had time to reflect. My question to you all is, how have you and do you function in relationships with your own children, partner, parents, siblings and friends?