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For the waiting, the wondering, and the bit where your whole life starts looking suspicious.
If you’re wondering whether you might have ADHD, chances are you’ve already Googled the symptoms. You may even have recognised yourself in most of them, while remaining entirely unconvinced that being forgetful, distracted or a bit impatient could account for the rather more complicated things going on in your life.
I know, because I did exactly the same thing.
The problem was never that I hadn’t looked at the symptoms. The problem was that the words were too small. Distracted, forgetful, impulsive, restless. They sounded almost laughably minor next to the life I was actually living.
Before The Answer is a 77-minute audio essay about what ADHD can look like once you stop reading the checklist and start looking at the relationships, the habits, the money, the jobs and the decisions that never make it onto one. It follows three very different people, alongside my own story and a woman called Karen (we’ve all got one).
It also covers the things worth knowing before you pursue a diagnosis: how ADHD gets separated from everything else that can look like it, what an assessment actually involves, what you get at the end of it, what happens if the answer is no, what to ask any private provider before you pay them, and what’s open to you if private isn’t an option.
I wonder how much sooner I’d have taken it seriously if somebody had asked me about the things that were actually affecting my life. This is that conversation.
Written and narrated by Hannah Viney for Class A People®.
To make your final purchase please go to the cart icon in the top right hand side of the navigation
For the waiting, the wondering, and the bit where your whole life starts looking suspicious.
If you’re wondering whether you might have ADHD, chances are you’ve already Googled the symptoms. You may even have recognised yourself in most of them, while remaining entirely unconvinced that being forgetful, distracted or a bit impatient could account for the rather more complicated things going on in your life.
I know, because I did exactly the same thing.
The problem was never that I hadn’t looked at the symptoms. The problem was that the words were too small. Distracted, forgetful, impulsive, restless. They sounded almost laughably minor next to the life I was actually living.
Before The Answer is a 77-minute audio essay about what ADHD can look like once you stop reading the checklist and start looking at the relationships, the habits, the money, the jobs and the decisions that never make it onto one. It follows three very different people, alongside my own story and a woman called Karen (we’ve all got one).
It also covers the things worth knowing before you pursue a diagnosis: how ADHD gets separated from everything else that can look like it, what an assessment actually involves, what you get at the end of it, what happens if the answer is no, what to ask any private provider before you pay them, and what’s open to you if private isn’t an option.
I wonder how much sooner I’d have taken it seriously if somebody had asked me about the things that were actually affecting my life. This is that conversation.
Written and narrated by Hannah Viney for Class A People®.
To make your final purchase please go to the cart icon in the top right hand side of the navigation