Same. I'm even a bit afraid of talking to a doctor about it because I feel like such a farse. I totally feel like I have ADHD but I'm also highly functioning. But when I think about how I'm functioning, it's basically a series of ways I trick my brain dominoes into falling into place. At work I carefully manage all my notifications - I must avoid being distracted by them, but must put systems into place to remind me of every task.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Read my response to this, you gotta keep fighting for yourself. I'm not against therapists bug I think there is something in their training, or maybe something to do with the business of mental health in general, that introduces all these disincentives to treatment for some people. If you take the self assessment and it seems like you have it you gotta fight like hell. I can't even begin to describe how much better my life is and how much happier I am now that I've been treating it for a few years

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a real assessment one can take online that isn't basically equivalent to a buzzfeed quizz?

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No. There are tests for the types of functional behavior differences that comprise ADHD, but they can't really be administered outside of a moderately controlled setting.

Stuff like saying a list of words and seeing how many you can recall in a fixed time can't really be done reliably in a quiz.

There are tools that can say "based on what you answered, there's a high/low probability you'd benefit from further consultation". They're basically "how often do you interrupt?", "how often do you zone out?".
Basically a structured way of "what I'm hearing you say is ...". "Based on how you describe yourself as ADHD as hell, you might benefit from asking someone about that".

Self assessments can be wrong about what they suggest you ask about. If you have a concern or behaviors that you do that upset you or cause problems, then that's worth addressing and following until you get help, but it might not be what you thought. Or the doctor might have been mistaken, since they're also fallible, but hopefully the more objective tests can lend objectively to their conclusions.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yo, same... Add on a history of past drug abuse (several years clean), and I can't imagine any doctor not immediately assuming I'm drug seeking and just trying to get some Adderall.

I'm not sure if I have ADHD per-se, but I'm certainly neurodivergent and the venn diagrams of ADHD and my flavor of neurodivergence overlap quite a bit.