Welcome to the new world


of understanding ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, on many people’s lips, in the media. But why?


Society has lived with the understanding that ‘it’s just for boys’ along with the idea that ‘you grow out of it’. We now find ourselves, globally, with under-funded and over stretched services for what is a significantly debilitating problem.


ADHD doesn’t respect gender, nor age, with many patients now in their senior years realising their struggles have a reason and can be helped. From the age of 6, to 80+, over 5% of the population who have ADHD are now turning to healthcare providers for help.


ADHD can be helped, with a combination of appropriate help, medication and understanding, allowing people to ‘validate’ their lifelong struggles. Is the title of ADHD fit for purpose? We need to move the dial, to find a more appropriate name for what is an easily helped and often overlooked illness suffered in ignorance by far too many people.


Welcome to the new world of understanding and hopefully a new, more appropriate label.


Dr Phil Anderton, PhD, is the CEO of ADHD 360, one of the largest and the world’s most successful neurodiversity clinics.


www.adhd-360.com


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