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ADHD: My understanding and the process involved.

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AmbushedByTheCake · 29/01/2022 23:15

It was just around two years ago I was making the first significant thoughts of a realisation about ADHD, what it was for me and even about a diagnosis. Then the pandemic and whatever else has happened... The GP asked me a year or so ago to fill out a form on this website and email it to him... and the pandemic continued... and life stuff.

And, of course, the dratted form is a fatal combination of paperwork, being organised and also having to confront some painful and awful questions... for a person like me who has procrastinated my whole life.

So here I am in 2022, with most of the form filled in, and some still to go. I have tasked myself with making me do it this weekend, and even have gone somewhere quiet to do so because I needed the headspace. I have done other things - joined Facebook groups, had supportive conversations at work, spoken to friends, but this... was in the background always. And I want it gone.

The diagnosis is some way off I know ... if I even have one, and the waiting lists and everything else. But I want at least this part over!

I'll be back in that ADHD to add random thoughts I am sure, and then hopefully not take as long with the next step. Hello, if you are here! Reading things on MN long ago was also a key part of things falling into place for me.

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BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation · 30/01/2022 12:15

Yes, I remember the dreaded form filling. It took me three days and two meltdowns. It is worth it though. Give yourself regular breaks and try to issue small rewards to yourself for each section that's completed.

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