Half of young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have had to deal with frontline professionals who refuse to acknowledge it as a “real condition”, including GPs and school staff, new research suggests.
Furthermore, many ADHD sufferers face waits of two years or more for a diagnosis, delaying their access to effective management strategies for the condition.
As a result, young people with ADHD are at “serious risk of social and mental health harm” because of what are described as “some of the longest and most complicated delays to diagnosis of any country in Europe”.
The stark warning has come from a group of ADHD experts in a report published on Friday (November 3) pulling together a range of research evidence on ADHD and the experiences of sufferers, both adults and children.
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