ADHD/ADD

Diagnosis and treatment

Do you sometimes come across as rather well-behaved, timidly and modest?

Little social resilience, which may have meant you were bullied.

Do you feel like you don't belong with strangers or fear them, especially in groups?

Do you want to be alone after some social contact?

However, you feel good with close family and close friends.

Do you often brood or engage in your own thoughts, both during the day and in your bed?

Are you easily distracted by situations with lots of stimuli.

Do you often think afterwards, “If only I had said this at the time”?

Notable: forgetful, chaotic, absent-minded.

Are you poorly organised and not very proactive or did you learn to address this?

At the same time, you can focus heavily on one thing at the cost of a lot of energy and fatigue afterwards.

Do you procrastinate very often?

Do you do less urgent but more fun things first?

Your fatigue and need for sleep increase with age, especially after noon or in the early evening.

Do you have a negative self-image due to years of negative (self) appointments and experiences?

A feeling of hopelessness and depression appears with flare-ups and often without explanation.

Frequent job and partner loss, or repetitive relationship problems.

Your mother or partner takes over a lot of tasks and organisation from you or constantly directs you

You have been underperforming all your life.

AD(H)D: therapy for lifelong symptoms

Maybe you are a student who is bogged down by concentration problems. Or you are a fifty-something who is becoming increasingly tired and isolated. Without finding a cause for this. Maybe you visited several psychologists and psychiatrists over the years in vain.

Maybe the medication is becoming unbearable for your mind and body? Or you had a life of failed relationships and lost jobs until now. Or you come to almost nothing. It could also be that you have had hospitalisations. Or suicidal thoughts or suicide attempts out of sheer desperation.

Our expertise centre will find out whether it is actually ADD that is at the root of your problems. Because that is usually a particularly heavy burden to bear for a person. If your problems have another cause, psychotherapy can often help. Sometimes we refer you. If there is ADD after diagnosis, you can get a recommendation for medication if you want to be helped quickly.

In the longer term, we recommend our own treatment programme. This not only makes you healthier and fitter, but also helps you get rid of most of your ADD symptoms. 30 years of experience taught us how to put healthy treatment on point. You get it for free from 21/02/22 when you get an ADD screening.

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Symptoms of AD(H)D: wrongly tested and treated

With AD(H)D, people usually think of concentration problems and chaotic behaviour. But often people learn to deal with these problems more or less. In that case, some other symptoms are visible, which are then called co-morbid. Which often leads to the wrong diagnosis, such as:

Depression
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
Dementia
Behavioural problems, contrarian, anti-social, lazy, authority problem, sub-assertive, loner, confused, difficult
Psychosis, autism, borderline
Compulsive acts and thoughts
Psychosomatics
Relationship issues
Burnout

Other characteristics of AD(H)D

Symptoms such as agitation and concentration problems may also have a (different) neurological cause, or a psychological one. It is important that your GP rules out a medical cause.

AD(H)D symptoms are different for each person. Each person with AD(H)D has their own personality, past, social network and their psychological problems. AD(H)D symptoms are partly determined by this.

Many of the symptoms in AD(H)D also occur in other mental health problems. Therefore, it requires a lot of experience to diagnose AD(H)D.