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The NHS is failing patients with ADHD | Letters
Dr Vicky Cleaksays the health service must improve access to effective treatment, whileDr Deborah Whitesays the blame doesn ’t lie with GPsI am a consultant psychiatrist who was trained by, and worked in, the NHS, most recently as a liaison psychiatrist in a general hospital. I saw three young men who had made impulsive suicidal attempts where the underlying cause was attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). I was unable to treat them with effective, evidence-based treatment because the psychiatrists in the mental health trust and GP practices locally would not take over the prescribing of stimulant medication. T...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 31, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Letters Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Mental health NHS GPs Doctors Private healthcare Psychiatry Psychology Source Type: news
Opinion: Why kids with summer birthdays face surprising health risks
The flu is a bigger threat, as is misdiagnosis of ADHD. But there are steps to help families and schools adjust.
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - July 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Anupam B. Jena and Christopher M. Worsham Source Type: news
‘Children with ADHD are being failed’: parents share their experiences of an overwhelmed system
Since the pandemic there has been a steep rise in cases of ADHD among children. Here, experts discuss why, parents describe their struggles and campaigners say what needs to changeAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is shrouded in misunderstanding, uncertainty and controversy. There is, for example, no definitive agreement on how many people have the condition. In the UK, one survey has put the incident rate in childhood (five to 15 years old) at just over 2% (3.62% of boys and 0.85% of girls). ADHD support groups cite figures of 5%.One UK study found 11% with symptoms but...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Anthony Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Society Parents and parenting Health Mental health Family Life and style Education Science NHS Children Coronavirus Charities Source Type: news
My ADHD makes motherhood a huge challenge, but it also gives me superpowers | Sarah Marsh
As a child I was ‘away with the fairies’, as an adult I ran for miles. Now I use that energy to make my son’s life amazingI was once on a list of two people who lost their work passes at the Guardian more than anyone else. I am chronically chaotic: my wardrobe includes unfolded jumpers and items thrown on top of each other. I am driven by what I can only describe as an inner motor that wants to be doing new things at all times.Given all these symptoms, it ’s surprising that it took me until the age of 34 to get a diagnosis ofattention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD), and it came alongside the birth of my first...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Marsh Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Neuroscience Society Mental health Women's health UK news Pregnancy Psychiatry Parents and parenting Source Type: news
The great serotonin debate: do depression treatments work by boosting the happy hormone?
Drugs targeting the ‘happy hormone’ are widely used for depression. But some question whether the condition is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brainDaniela da Silva is feeling good. Lying cocooned under fleece blankets inside a medical scanner, her eyes are closed and her mind is focused and remarkably unperturbed by negative thoughts. Three hours earlier, the 39-year-old yoga teacher and neuroscience student was given a dose of the stimulant drug dextroamphetamine, which is often used to treat ADHD. “I’m having a serotonin increase. Oh definitely,” she predicts before entering the PET scanner.Da Silva is a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Hannah Devlin Tags: Neuroscience Depression Drugs Human biology Medical research Health Society Mental health Counselling and therapy Life and style Source Type: news
Our Relationship With Time Is Changing —Maybe for the Better
It wasn’t long after the pandemic began that people around the world started to notice something weird was going on. As the rhythms of daily life changed, some people’s days seemed to run together; others felt theirs stretched on indefinitely. The sense of what an hour felt like was corroding. News outlets filled with attempts to explain what was happening.
Ruth Ogden, an experimental psychologist who studies time perception at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K., says she had only ever gotten maybe one interview request before the pandemic, and has since received at least a hundred. And while the stud...
Source: TIME: Science - March 7, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Lily Rothman Tags: Uncategorized Psychology Source Type: news
Best of 2022: Why aren ’t women being diagnosed with ADHD?
It ’s estimated that 1 million women in the UK could have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – but according to the ADHD Foundation, 50% to 75% of them do not know they have it. So why are women being left behind?In this episode, first broadcast in May 2022, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Jasmine Andersson about her experience of getting a late diagnosis, and asks Prof Amanda Kirby why the condition is so often missed in women and girlsContinue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 3, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Madeleine Finlay, produced by Anand Jagatia, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, and the executive producer was Isabelle Roughol Tags: Science Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Source Type: news
My adult ADHD drugs felt like a lifeline. Then came the scary side-effects …
After a year on prescription stimulants, I started to unravel. Would a desperate experiment with street narcotics make me see things differently?At first being diagnosed with ADHD came as a relief. I cried in the psychiatrist ’s office: maybe I wasn’t lazy after all. Hegave me pills that, within days, offered me a glimpse of what I thought a neurotypical person ’s brain might feel like: focused and smooth, like a game of leisurely tennis rather than a ball machine going berserk.Dexamphetamine felt like a silver bullet. Suddenly I could plan ahead, follow entire meetings, and pack a bag without having a nervous breakd...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Sophie Knight Tags: Health & wellbeing Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Mental health Drugs Neuroscience Psychiatry Medical research Society Pharmaceuticals industry Life and style Source Type: news
Where does an overloaded mental health system leave patients with an ADHD diagnosis? | Nicholas Hudson
As a GP, more and more people are coming to see me about ADHD. But with specialists overwhelmed, where should they turn?It seems like almost everyone has a friend who has recently been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). As a GP working in suburban Melbourne, what had been an occasional topic patients broached is now a conversation I ’m having multiple times a week.So what has changed, and what does it mean for our health and health system?Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Nicholas Hudson Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Mental health GPs Psychology Doctors Source Type: news
Bionic reading: could an ADHD-friendly hack turn me into a speed-reader? | Daniel Lavelle
This typographical trick certainly helps me focus. But maybe having a wandering mind isn ’t such a bad thingWith ADHD, thoughts and impulses intrude on my focus like burglars trying to break into a house. Sometimes these crooks carefully pick the backdoor lock before they silently enter and pilfer all the silverware. At other times, stealth goes out of the window; they ’re kicking through the front door and taking whatever they like.Either way, I was supposed to be reading a book just now, but all I can think about is how great it would be if I waded into a river to save a litter of kittens from tumbling down a waterfa...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 27, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Daniel Lavelle Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Society Language Neuroscience Source Type: news
Why aren ’t women getting diagnosed with ADHD?
It ’s estimated that a million women in the UK could have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – but according to the ADHD Foundation, 50–75% of them do not know they have it. Going without a diagnosis can impact someone’s education, employment and physical and mental health. So why are wom en being left behind? Madeleine Finlay speaks to Jasmine Andersson about her experience of getting a late diagnosis, and Prof Amanda Kirby on why the condition is so often missed in women and girls.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 12, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Madeleine Finlay, produced by Anand Jagatia, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu; the executive producer was Isabelle Roughol Tags: Health Science Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Women Source Type: news
I have ADHD and was scared of psychedelics. Then I found myself eating magic truffles ... | Deborah Frances-White
The safe, repetitive domesticity of lockdown made me face my demons and seek therapy, while also making me hungry for sensation and risk. So I set off for a retreat in AmsterdamIf you had asked me pre-pandemic if I would ever touch psychedelics, I would have said absolutely not. The speed of my brain is literally my only skill. As a standup comedian and podcaster, I can walk out on stage with absolutely nothing in my head and riff with an audience for an hour if I need to – which I know seems like a superpower to others – while ordinary powers, such as the ability to do my laundry every week, elude me.I was recently di...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Deborah Frances-White Tags: Drugs Mental health Science Society Source Type: news
TikTok accidentally detected my ADHD. For 23 years everyone missed the warning signs | Matilda Boseley
Learning you have ADHD on TikTok is now such a common phenomenon it has become its own meme, but it can be trickyIt ’s kind of embarrassing to say, but the social media app TikTok figured out I had ADHD before I did.For 23 years my parents, my teachers, my doctor, my psychologist and my own brain all missed the warning signs, yet somehow it only took that app ’s algorithm a few days to accidentally diagnose me.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 3, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Matilda Boseley Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder TikTok Mental health Psychology Social media Young people Digital media Source Type: news
Adrian Chiles on being diagnosed with ADD as an adult
A year ago, the broadcaster Adrian Chiles opened a book on attention deficit disorder (ADD). Suddenly the good, the bad and the mad bits of his life started to make sense. He describes the impact the diagnosis has had on his lifeFour years ago, the broadcaster Adrian Chiles went to see a psychiatrist specialising in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), who concluded he probably had ADD – ADHD without the hyperactivity aspect. But it was only when he read a book about the condition three years later, and recognised so much of his behaviour on the pages - the inability to focus, the surges of adrenaline, ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Anushka Asthana with Adrian Chiles and Prof Susan Young, produced by Sam Colbert and Nicholas Cox; executive producers Nicole Jackson and Phil Maynard Tags: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Adrian Chiles Psychiatry Psychology Media Society Science Source Type: news
ADHD exerts lifelong impairment
Source: ScienceNOW - September 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Clauset, A. Tags: twis Source Type: news
