ADHD care with a GP.
Plain-language articles by endorsed NSW GP Dr Jaspreet Saini on ADHD assessment, treatment, scripts and ongoing care with a GP.
- Can you have ADHD if you did well at school?
Good grades do not rule ADHD out. Why some capable adults are only noticed later, and what a careful assessment looks at instead.
- ADHD, anxiety, burnout or poor sleep: how do you tell the difference?
Trouble concentrating has many causes. How clinicians separate ADHD from anxiety, burnout and sleep problems, and why they often overlap.
- Why can everyday tasks take capable adults so much effort?
Meeting every work deadline but avoiding a simple phone call is common. What sits behind the gap between public capability and private effort.
- What happens during an adult ADHD assessment in Australia?
A plain guide to the adult ADHD assessment: the history, questionnaires, collateral information, other causes considered and the written outcome.
- What if an ADHD assessment finds that you don't have ADHD?
A careful assessment can conclude it is not ADHD. What that outcome means, what it can still offer, and how to take the next step.
- Can you be assessed for ADHD without childhood school reports?
School reports help but are not essential. What other information can show how ADHD affected childhood when the records are gone.
- How much does adult ADHD assessment and treatment really cost in Australia?
How the costs of adult ADHD care are made up in Australia: consultation fees, Medicare rebates, medicines and the PBS, and ongoing reviews.
- Newly diagnosed with ADHD: what happens next?
The first weeks after an adult ADHD diagnosis: mixed feelings, treatment choices, practical changes and how ongoing care is set up.
- Why an ADHD diagnosis doesn't solve everything overnight
Expectations after an ADHD diagnosis are often high. Why change is gradual, what medication can and cannot do, and how habits catch up.
- ADHD medication: what treatment reviews actually assess
What happens in an ADHD medication review: benefit against goals, side effects, heart rate and blood pressure, sleep, appetite, mood and safety.
- Can a GP diagnose and treat ADHD in NSW? A guide to the current rules
The current NSW rules: endorsed GPs can assess, diagnose and start ADHD treatment, and ADHD Continuation Prescribers can continue it.
- Diagnosed with ADHD but can't access treatment: what are your options?
When a diagnosis does not lead to treatment: specialist waitlists, GP continuation, endorsed GPs in NSW and non-medication support.
- What if the way you've learned to work already makes sense?
Many adults with ADHD have built their own ways of working. Good care starts by understanding them, not replacing them.
- The shape of GP-led ADHD care in Australia.
How GP-led assessment, treatment and ongoing care is taking shape under NSW endorsement, with psychiatry as a partner for complexity.
- What a GP actually does for your ADHD care.
GP diagnostic assessment, medication initiation by endorsed GPs, and the reviews and monitoring involved in ongoing ADHD care.
- Getting your ADHD script on time in NSW.
How the NSW pathway works now, why scripts run late, and the practical set-up that keeps treatment steady.
- Adult ADHD: what to expect in your first year of treatment.
Titration, side effects, the early lift, and the slower work of building a life that fits the way your brain works.
- Finding an ADHD GP in NSW: what to ask.
What an endorsed GP is, how it differs from a GP who continues treatment, and the questions worth asking a practice before you book.
- ADHD treatment for adults: what the options are.
Medication, practical strategies, therapy and the care of other conditions: how the parts of adult ADHD treatment fit together.
- Preparing for an ADHD assessment with a GP.
What a GP asks about, what information helps, and what the written outcome of an assessment usually covers.
- ADHD medication: what your GP monitors and why.
Blood pressure, heart rate, sleep, appetite and mood: the checks that keep ADHD medication safe and useful over the years.