Having an online assessment for ADHD is a significant decision. If you receive an ADHD diagnosis, it may change how you and other people see you now. It may change how you look back and think about your past: your childhood, time in school, how you achieved or struggled at college, university or in the workplace. It may alter how you view your past or current relationships. That process of seeing your past, present and future in a different way, can involve quite a lot of different emotions. So, it’s important to have the headspace to embark on that process. If you have a lot going on right now, in your work or home life, then is now the right time for you to have an Online Adult ADHD Assessment, or would it work better for you to wait for a while? 

 

After an online ADHD Assessment, if you receive an ADHD diagnosis, then would you want to consider medication? If the answer is “Yes”, then you need to know if your GP is willing to enter into a “Shared Care Agreement”. The majority of people who have a private virtual ADHD Assessment, will also have a private medication assessment. ADHD medication is a specialist area of prescribing and most GPs are not trained to do the initial assessment and prescribing of ADHD medication. Therefore, you would need to see a private specialist prescriber who may be a psychiatrist, a mental health nurse or a pharmacist. They will work with you to agree on a medication which works well for you, at what dose and at what time of day you should take it.