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Psychiatry-UK 2023-01-09 Person 4 5 0

My overall experience of PUK has been positive and ADHD diagnosis has been life changing in may ways (alongside stimulant medication). My overall experience of ADHD diagnosis and 'journey' towards understanding and healing, however, is definitely more mixed so far. Whilst diagnosis and stimulant medication is very much life changing in many aspects, I have personally found that it only provides the key to unlock the door to change and to understanding of the condition. On this front, I believe that early physiological support, alongside medication, is critical (for me personally at least). Several ADHD books later, I still feel that I have a novice's understanding of ADHD and still struggle with many aspects of the condition. To this end, I found that diagnosis was actually quite isolating when everything happens online (as was the case with diagnosis through PUK) and with little or no follow up support. So for me personally, some follow up advice and (ideally) some 1:1 support would have made all the difference. With this said, however, I fully appreciate that so many areas of the health service are hugely stretched beyond capacity. So I would also not want this (hopefully constructive) feedback to remotely detract from just how life changing a diagnosis and a stimulant medication prescription is. So thank you PUK for playing your part in this- especially given the limitations of funding and current service usage level :-)