To be grrrrrr at the Max/ADHD story on Corrie

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Couple of months of sudden onset behavioural issues, a visit to a GP, a specialist nurse visits the house and he is diagnosed and on medication!!! Wanky script writers and lazy researchers!!

This is a total piss take, I am a children's nurse and I see the hoops parents have to jump through if ADHD is suspected and the long drawn out process of "watchful waiting" first for 12 weeks before assessment is even considered!!

Yeah yeah I know not everybody watches Corrie, and it's not real life but this storyline has sent out the completely wrong message and may even give parents the wrong expectations of an ADHD assessment. I wouldn't be surprised if requests for ADHD assessments rise - after all it's so easy!!!

Oh well, guess I had better get my bottle of a Rosé and chill.......

YES OP!!!! Thanks for saying that we were gobsmacked - it takes so so long to diagnose a mental health issue what a load of bollocks the GP tells you first visit! BAH!!

This is one of the crappest storylines they have had in ages. He suddenly went from an average child to an over the top naughty/horrible/terror child, whatever you want to call him in the space of about a week. Totally unbelievable. Also, he is a terrible actor and I hate saying that about child actors

Agree. It's rubbish!
Worst corrie has done in ages.

Also another person in jail for a crime they didn't commit snore!!!!!

Yep, I had to see a specialist and have a 2 day assessment before I could get diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and then the specialist had to write a letter to my insurance and doctors before any medication could be dispensed. Even then they wouldn't go past a certain dosage level. That was here in the states where it's easier than the UK to get diagnosed.

I am glad doctors are cracking down on it though. Too many people selling and abusing meds for studying, which just makes it harder on people that actually are legit.

It is absolutely ridiculous I agree.
Not a true reprensentation of the road to diagnosis at all. Also very poor acting.

Yup I have been shouting at the tv!

It's a rubbish storyline, I agree but don't blame the writers. It's the producers who decide these things, not the writers on something like corrie.

I bet there's some poor sod freelance writer, working alone day in day out arguing that there's no history of behaviour, characters wouldn't act like that etc . . . And being over-ruled.

Yes I havent been watching this as I knew it would annoy me but my son has/ pretty obvious ASD it still took seven months and lots of professionals involved to diagnose he was three and a half so fairly low functioning but still no professional would diagnose/after a couple of visits !!

Gahhhhhhh just looked on digital spy, apparently the medication makes him so much calmer.....grrrrrrrrr instant cure!

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This is really going to impact on the proper ADHD/ASD children needing assessment

Gah I am an experienced school nurse and I see children I KNOW are 99% sure to be ADHD, and camhs won't even take a referral until the parents have done all sorts - parenting programmes, ed psych input, early support - it literally takes around 6 months to get a
diagnosis where we live.

Soaps are written for people with a short attention span. They want action in every storyline in every episode.

Legal soaps and crime dramas are the same - they edit out the law's delays.

That's television, alas.

YANBU it's all very annoying.

I don't watch Corrie and reading this thread I am glad I don't. It would make my blood boil. Completely unrealistic.

both my boys were diagnosed after one hospital appointment. One doesn't need meds. The other one does but I have to go back when he's 6 as he can't have them before then.

I know nothing about ADHD but I know enough to recognise the Corrie attempts are bollocks. Max hasn't even been all that naughty...! Opening his sister's birthday presents? Well I never.

I wondered to myself briefly if they are trying to raise awareness but if that's the case, they're doing a lousy job...

When they were in the doctors, describing his behaviour, my DD turned to me and said 'That's just like me'. I have tried and failed to get a diagnosis.

Her school had said she was fidgety, lacked concentration, etc but as soon as I mentioned ADHD did a quick u-turn. The SENCO is totally anti medication for ADHD and I am convinced they were trying to protect her from that.

If only it was as easy as one visit to the doctor!

Both me and a friend were given diagnoses at first consultant appointments for our sons. Referred by GP on school SENCO advice. Lots of forms. Consultation and diagnosis. Follow up on going. But it does happen.

Took over a year to get a dx for DD2, and that was with help from the SENCO and a sympathetic GP.