Vicki Demirdjian - Psychotherapist

How does this report assist my GP or Psychiatrist?
GPs are frequently restricted by brief consultation windows and strict triage criteria, leading to high referral rejection rates. This report compiles your history and psychometric scores into a professional format, giving medical providers the documented "clear evidence of functional impairment" required to justify secondary care placement.

What happens if the psychometric tools do not indicate ADHD?
A negative screening result is a clinically valuable outcome. If the data indicates that your symptoms do not meet the threshold for ADHD, we will utilize the findings to explore alternatives, such as chronic burnout, trauma-related hypervigilance, and establish an appropriate therapeutic treatment plan.

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Is ADHD really a medical thing?

Yes — ADHD is a real, medically recognised neurodevelopmental condition. It is not laziness, bad parenting, lack of discipline, or “just being distracted.” ADHD is recognised by major health bodies, including the NHS, NICE, CDC, and the World Health Organization’s ICD-11 classification system. The NHS describes ADHD as a condition that can affect attention, impulsivity, restlessness and organisation, and notes that it can continue into adulthood.

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If someone did well at school, they can’t have ADHD.
Plenty of people with ADHD are intelligent, high-achieving or perfectionistic. They may compensate through anxiety, pressure, last-minute panic, masking, or huge amounts of unseen effort. ADHD is not about intelligence; it is about regulation.

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Everyone has a bit of ADHD.
Everyone gets distracted sometimes, but ADHD is different because symptoms are persistent, developmentally significant and impairing. The NIMH describes ADHD as involving persistent symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.

 

​Bad parenting causes ADHD.
No. Parenting style does not cause ADHD. Supportive structure, routines and emotional regulation strategies can help, but they do not create or cure ADHD. The NHS says ADHD may be linked to genetic differences and often runs in families; other associated factors include prematurity, epilepsy, brain injury and autism.

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​ADHD just means you can’t concentrate.
Not quite. ADHD can involve inattention, impulsivity, restlessness, emotional dysregulation, poor organisation, time blindness, forgetfulness, procrastination, and difficulty starting or finishing tasks. Some people can focus intensely on things that interest them, but struggle to regulate attention when something is boring, repetitive or overwhelming. The NHS lists adult ADHD symptoms including distractibility, difficulty organising, interrupting, restlessness and trouble following instructions.​

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I don’t have ADHD because I’m not hyperactive.

Hyperactivity can be absent, subtle, internal, or show up as racing thoughts, emotional restlessness, overthinking, fidgeting, overtalking, or needing constant stimulation. The NHS describes adult ADHD as including difficulties with concentration, organisation, restlessness, impulsivity and emotional regulation, not just visible hyperactivity.