higher public awareness of ADHD –> higher ADHD diagnosis costs –> higher ADHD medication cost
With better awareness comes understanding, adjustment, change and acceptance. It’s not about medicating everyone. For some Ritalin helps, but there is a far greater need for a positive ADHD label – to let people know they are ADHD, to pursue an agenda of awareness and societal change too.
Denial of ADHD is based on self-interest, or prejudice, and ignorance but not on science.
The greatest help you can give someone with ADHD is to let them know they are ADHD
Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 10,000 hours and 15 years of experience in coaching hundreds of ADHD executives, business professionals and creatives, and previously running a large ADHD support group and an ADHD diagnostic clinic. His business expertise comes from a twenty years career in software, from programming, through marketing, sales and running a few start-ups. His ADHD insight is personal, with decades understanding his own ADHD experience and in bringing up his ADHD daughter. He has published his writing primarily via this website, with interactive ADHD courses in development.