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You have probably been wondering about this for a while

It almost never starts in a doctor's office. It starts at one in the morning with a video that describes your entire life in ninety seconds. Or a friend says something offhand and it lands harder than they meant it to. Or your child gets assessed and you sit there reading the criteria thinking, hang on.

Then the doubt arrives, and it is very good at its job. Everyone is a bit like this. You got through school. You hold down a job. You have managed this far, so how bad can it be. And underneath that, the worse thought: what if I go and find out that there is no reason, and this is just who I am.

So you look up what it would take to find out. In Ireland assessment costs, referral routes and public waiting times vary by service and area, and the free quizzes all seem to end at the same cheerful screen telling you to speak to a professional. You close the tab. A few months later, at one in the morning, you open it again.

What the screening actually is

Four screening questionnaires that clinics use, named openly, because you deserve to know what you are answering:

• ASRS v1.1, the World Health Organization's adult ADHD screen: how things are for you now.
• WURS-25: what childhood was like, because adult ADHD is not assessed on this year alone.
• GAD-7 and PHQ-9: anxiety and mood. These difficulties can overlap with ADHD or occur alongside it; screening cannot tell you which is causing your symptoms.

Then a short optional section in your own words about where all this actually lands: work, money, sleep, the people around you. Nothing you type there is scored or interpreted. It is quoted back to you exactly as you wrote it, because your own sentence about your own life is usually the most useful line in the whole report.

Everything is scored against the published cutoffs, the same ones the instruments were validated with. The report is generated by software from those rules, which means the same answers always produce the same report. Nobody grades you. No human reads your answers, and your individual answers are deleted once the report is made.

What it can tell you

• Where your answers fall against the thresholds clinicians use, on all four scales.
• How you remember difficulties in childhood, to discuss alongside other history and evidence.
• Whether your answers also suggest anxiety or low mood worth discussing with a clinician. The scores cannot establish a cause.
• What to do next, in order, for your particular pattern: the public route through your GP, or the private clinics you can now refer yourself to, with the questions worth asking before you book either.

The point of the report is not the verdict. It is arriving at that appointment with the whole picture already written down, instead of trying to summarise thirty years of your life in a seven-minute slot.

What it cannot tell you

This part matters more than the part above, so it gets a heading of its own rather than a line of small print.

• It is not a diagnosis, and it never will be. No website can diagnose ADHD. Only a qualified clinician can, and they do it by taking a history from you, which no questionnaire replaces.
• It is not a clinic.ADHD Mind does not assess, diagnose or prescribe. It has no connection to “ADHDmind Clinic”, a different business that used this web address until early 2025 and advertised assessments in towns across Ireland. Some of its old pages still turn up in search results. None of them are ours.
• It is self-report. It records what you say about yourself on the day you say it. A brutal week can push scores up. A good month can pull them down.
• It can be wrong in both directions. People with strong coping systems, and people who have quietly built their whole life around avoiding the hard parts, often come in under the line. That does not close the question.
• It cannot rule things out. Sleep disorders, thyroid problems, trauma, grief and a dozen other things can produce overlapping symptoms. Screening tells you whether a question is worth pursuing. It does not tell you the answer.

If your report says ADHD looks unlikely, that is a real result and it is worth having. It is also not the end of the conversation, and your report says so rather than sending you away with nothing.

The deal

• The 2-minute check and the full screening are free, and so are the result you see at the end and your full personalised report, sent by email: no card, no catch.
• The €19 Assessment Ready Pack adds a two-page summary for your GP or clinic, word-for-word scripts built from your answers, your childhood evidence sheet, a page for someone who knew you as a child, the Ireland assessment guide with what each route really costs in the first year, and the ebook Understanding the ADHD Mind. You never need any of it to get your results or your report, and it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The ebook is also available on its own for €6, without screening, from the book page.
• I ask for your email so I can send the report. That is what it is for. If you want anything else from me, there is a separate box you have to tick yourself, and your report arrives either way.
• Your individual answers are deleted once your report is generated. I keep scale totals and the report itself, which expires after 30 days, or after 12 months with the pack.
• You can read selected page types from the report before you start, so you know what it contains.

Who is behind it

I'm Éanna Healy. I built this, I write it, and I run it from Limerick under Revival Point Ltd.

Depression and anxiety were part of my life for years. I took antidepressants for about eleven years and did not feel they gave me the help I needed. Nobody raised ADHD during those years in therapy. When I raised it myself, it was dismissed. A later conversation with a psychologist, when I was about thirty-one or thirty-two, was more receptive. That was separate from my formal diagnosis at thirty-six.

That experience is part of why this site looks at anxiety and mood alongside attention. Those difficulties were real in my life; a later ADHD diagnosis does not erase them. Screening can help organise questions, but only a clinical assessment can explore what is contributing to someone's difficulties.

I am not a clinician and I have never claimed to be. Having ADHD is not a qualification to assess anybody else for it. No clinician has reviewed this content, and nothing here will imply otherwise. If that ever changes, this page will say who and when.

The questionnaires are named further up this page. The scoring follows their published rules, so the same answers always produce the same report. Where my voice turns up in a report, describing what these patterns can feel like to live with, it is labelled as lived experience and never as clinical opinion.

Outside this I run a float centre and a sound practice, and I have written a book about the whole thing called Understanding the ADHD Mind. I sell that book, and it is in the €19 Assessment Ready Pack above. I would rather say so here than in a footnote, because it is my own book and these are my own services.

The final September 2026 edition of the book is now the source for the website sample and ebook downloads. The ADHD Mind companion app is being tested through TestFlight, with tools for everyday use.