Next step
Abi na ADHD be this?
Wetin doctors dey actually look — the pattern, how long e don tey, and how e dey affect different part of your life — plus reflection sheet wey you fit carry go. No score, no result.
How e dey feel
Something make you ask the question. Usually na say you see yourself inside one description and you feel relief and suspicion at the same time — relief say explanation fit dey, suspicion say you dey find excuse. The two reaction make sense. But none of dem na evidence.
Wetin fit dey happen
Doctors no dey look symptom list. Dem dey look four things together:
- Pattern — e no be just one or two hard day. How the inattention, over-activity or to act before you think dey show must reach the mark wey doctors official list don set (na “diagnostic criteria” dem call am).
- How e tey — pattern wey don tey, wey get root for childhood, no be something wey start last year.
- How e dey affect your life — NICE talk say e must disturb your life reach middle level at least (na “moderate impairment” dem call am), e must dey happen often, and e must show for two or more important place: with people, for house, for school, or for work.
- Wetin else fit explain am — anxiety, depression, sleep wahala, thyroid wahala, hearing difficulty and long stress all dey produce picture wey overlap, and some of dem dey follow ADHD come too.
Try this one now
Reflection sheet, no be test
The sheet wey dey below no get score on purpose. No total dey, no percentage, no “likely / unlikely”. E dey for one purpose: to help you give doctor concrete example instead of general impression, because na concrete example assessment dey run on. Your answers go stay inside your browser.
Waka through the prompts, write short concrete example instead of yes/no.
For each one, note roughly when e start and whether e dey show for more than one part of your life.
Add anything else wey dey happen: sleep, mood, alcohol, other health condition, medicine.
Copy the sheet wey you finish, carry am go the appointment. Na the part wey people always forget to prepare.
Reflection sheet
No score dey comot from this thing. Na way to turn impression into example wey doctor fit work with. Answer only wetin apply to you.
The one thing to do next
Your one next action
If you wan follow this thing, the first step usually na doctor wey you fit actually reach, wey fit refer you forward — psychiatrist, or paediatrician for pikin. For Nigeria the usual starting point na federal neuropsychiatric hospital, teaching hospital, and university medical centre. Expect to wait, and expect to travel if you no dey inside big city.