Managing my ADHD

We help young and adult clients who are going through difficult problems at either school, university or work which affect their academic/work performance.

Here are some of the common ADHD symptoms we help our clients with ADHD:

• Making careless mistakes, being easily distracted or “zoning out”
• Forgetfulness in daily activities, often losing things necessary for tasks
• Difficulty to keep focussed and sit through meetings
• Relationship conflict because of difficulty with interruption or intrusion on others, easily bored or losing interest making it hard to keep long term relationships
• Impulsive with money, difficulty with financial decisions,  waiting in lines, or an ability to relax

• Getting behind with school work, struggling to keep up, exam stress
• Handing in assignments late, missing deadlines
• Worry about HSC, career choice, job satisfaction or performance
• Dealing with chronic overwhelm
• Easily starting new projects but difficulty seeing it through to completion
• Difficulty organising tasks or activities, or getting going on tasks
• Procrastination: often avoiding tasks requiring sustained mental effort
• Understanding or following through on instructions

Common emotional difficulties that can be associated with ADHD

• Worry, performance anxiety/error anxiety
• Depression symptoms such as feelings of hopelessness, guilt or shame
• Anxiety and agitation, irritability
• Highly sensitive/ feelings get hurt easily, or easily embarrassed
• Perfectionistic traits
• Passive/shyness may lead to being bullied
• Compulsive eating- over or under