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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 a private assessment starts around €930, the public waiting list runs to years, 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 assessment 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, the two things that can look identical to ADHD from the inside, and the two things most often mistaken for it in both directions.

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, on any tier, 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.
• Whether the childhood half of the picture is there, which is the part most people have never been asked about.
• Whether anxiety or low mood might explain more of this than ADHD does, or might be sitting on top of it.
• 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 walking into 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 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 plainly rather than sending you away with nothing.

The deal, plainly

• The 2-minute check, the full assessment and your full report are all free. Free means free: no card, no catch, nothing held back at the end.
• The only paid thing is a €9 appointment bundle: a GP Letter, an Appointment Pack, an Informant Appendix for someone who knew you as a child, and the ebook Understanding the ADHD Mind. You never need any of it to get your results.
• 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.
• You can read a complete sample report before you start, so you know exactly what turns up.

Who is behind it

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

I spent my twenties being treated for depression and anxiety. The treatment wasn't wrong, exactly. It was aimed at the wrong level. Nobody in all that time asked what might be sitting underneath it, and I didn't know there was an underneath to ask about. I worked it out for myself in my thirties, said it out loud to a professional who told me it wasn't real, and got assessed properly after that.

That decade is the reason this screens anxiety and mood alongside attention instead of only asking the question you arrived with. A screening that only looks for ADHD will find ADHD, and that is the same failure I lost ten years to, pointing the other way. It runs in both directions: sometimes the anxiety was the symptom, and sometimes the anxiety is the actual answer.

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.

Which is why nothing here rests on my judgement. The questionnaires are the validated ones, 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 €9 bundle above. I would rather say so here than in a footnote, because a page arguing for honesty should probably start with its own.