AADD-UK
The site for and by adults with ADHD
We welcome feedback, comments, suggestions, and questions so please feel free to contact us either using the comment form below or by emailing us at aadd.org@gmail.com.
Discussion
21 Responses to “Contact Us”
Leave a Reply
Authors
-
AADD-UK
-
veillantif
- Update:Cambridgeshire’s denial of NHS treatment for adults newly diagnosed with ADHD
- AADD-UK’s response to Cambridgeshire’s denial of NHS treatment for adults newly diagnosed with ADHD
- Parent of a child with ADHD? Have a free car under £1.5bn taxpayer-funded scheme
- Bristol Adult ADHD Support Group Meeting (and Bedford)
- 1st International Congress for the European Network Adult ADHD
-
aethelreadtheunready
Hi can anyone out there give me any advice if adults who have just been diagnoised with adhd are entiltiled to any benifits, my son has just been diagnoised last month and recently lost his job. he has signed on but they only want to pay him £10 a week to live on as he has a staurday job.
HIs diagnoises was ADHD, autism spectrum, anxiety, dyslexia, and dispraxia or as he discribes it the whole works lucky me!!
Posted by alison dinsdale | January 7, 2012, 1:59 pmHello,
I just wanted to post our new PSA on adult ADHD. Hope it helps folks empathize with the experience of adults with ADHD.
We have a site dedicated also http://www.aboutadultadhd.com
Thanks!
Phil
Posted by Phil Boissiere | November 8, 2011, 1:21 amI’m in the US. Concerta has been around long time here. I’m not sure why it was only recently available to you. It has nothing to do with your age, at least not in the US. Dr. Marcy
Posted by Dr. Marcy Lee Howard | October 24, 2011, 3:19 pmI also have a question about what has happened to Addenbrookes. I used to get help from a specialist there who really seemed that he could help me, as i only got diagnosed at 21. I now dont know who to speak to, as im being told by my GP and was being told by my specialist dr at Addenbrookes, that I should be entitled to extra help and support, but keep being told by so called benefits experts that there is nothing wrong with me. I really dont know what to do anymore, i cant hold a job down, keep failing at everything that I do and everytime i think im getting somewhere with help for things like going back to college and help with benefits, i get told that I dont qualify. I am so angry with the lack of help I get from everywhere. I just need help!
Posted by Ben-jammin | October 20, 2011, 8:21 pmHi, I have a question about concerta xl.
I was diagnosed at 21 and was 1st prescribed Ritalin, then Concerta XL, but have just seen it is only now being made avaliable.I have been on it for 2 years now?
Was I allowed it or not?
Posted by Ben-jammin | October 20, 2011, 8:09 pmIt is my personal belief that a large portion of Inattentive ADD is a subset of ADHD. Most respond to neurostimulants just like the ADHD group. Dr. Marcy
Posted by Dr. Marcy Lee Howard | September 27, 2011, 2:58 pmHi
It seem to all be about Hyperactive ADHD, do you have any info/stats/treatments about the Inattentive kind of ADHD? if not, would you have any recommendations?
Many thanks
Emeric
Posted by Emeric | September 14, 2011, 11:55 amWhen you click on the Bristol Support Group in your listings, it takes you to the Brighton Supprt Group website
Posted by adhdthoughtsCaroline Williams | September 7, 2011, 10:11 amThanks for pointing that out. Fixed now.
Posted by AADD-UK | September 7, 2011, 10:38 amplease please can you help
i have asked my gp o contact the person that you have a specail in the west midlands at dudley hopital and they dont exisit any more. i live in wolverhmpton in the west midlands and my gp has all but given up on finding someone to test me for adhd. the annoyn thing is that i propberly have had it as a child and it was undiagnose. now im an adult i can find anyone to test me, arent they the same test.
please please can you help find me a way to get tested
many thankls
eloise harvey
Posted by eloise | August 8, 2011, 5:55 pmHi,
We have made an enquiry to the West Midlands Trust and as soon as they tell us we will post it here.
AADD UK
Posted by AADD-UK | August 10, 2011, 2:55 pmBy the way, your GP is supposed to find someone to test you without you having to tell them – referring patients to experts is part of a GP’s job. If there is no one in your area your GP should find someone outside of the are to refer you to.
However, as per our other message, as soon as we hear from the West Midlands, we’ll let you know.
Posted by AADD-UK | August 10, 2011, 2:58 pmhey hope you soon find someone. I took my son who is now 23 and just lost another job due to anxiety, panic attacks and inattitiveness to see a behavioural therapist who spotted the adhd. I used this websites details, the NICE guidelines and requested a referral from our GP, who asked my son to sell it to him why he needed the referral!! Im a nurse who works for the nhs and it made me ashamed of my profession. finally found a psychaitrist, who has confirm ADHD and autisitic spectrum, but im am paying for my sons care and hope fully going back to NHS care in the future. I sympathise if you cannot pay but after 23 years of very little help i had enough. KEEp going back to your GP he has a duty of care for you if no help ask for you local PALS number as they have a duty to help you get the care you need
Posted by alison dinsdale | January 7, 2012, 1:54 pmhey, do you know where there is any adult adhd support in essex???
Posted by Kizzy Quick | July 27, 2011, 6:04 pmIn the FAQs section, the links to the NICE guidelines aren’t working.
Posted by angle | June 7, 2011, 9:17 amThanks for mentioning this – hopefully it is fixed now.
Posted by AADD-UK | June 7, 2011, 1:46 pmHow fab to find your site – I was diagnosed well over 10 years ago as an adult. After years of struggling with ADHD I was finally taken seriously by a counsellor that I was referred to by my then employer. Suddenly everything in my life to date started to fall into place…… still struggle at times but so much easier to deal with the condition! It’s just so good to find people tking the condition in adults seriously – it’s not just naughty kids!!!!
Posted by Amanda | May 25, 2011, 11:16 pm3. Dr Andrew Moore Devon Partnership NHS Trust, North Devon District Hospital, Raleigh Park, Barnstaple EX31 4JB
Tel: 01271 322654
The aove contact from Devon is no longer at that address/number. When I called the new number, I was told that he no longer deals with ADHD.
Posted by Stephen Ramsay | May 11, 2011, 3:18 pmHi Stephen thanks for giving us this information. We’ll find out what’s going on and in the meantime we’ll take these contact details down.
Posted by veillantif | May 11, 2011, 4:19 pmRe – Brighton Adult ADHD support group.
Im sure Garret showed me that the venue pic had changed from the Earth and Stars to The Caxton Arms?
Karen
Posted by Karen Tipping | April 27, 2011, 3:57 pmMany apologies for that. The venue picture and directions should now be showing the Caxton Arms in both the blog and your support group page.
Posted by veillantif | April 28, 2011, 1:13 pm