What Edison adults often notice when they suspect ADHD

The systems that used to work for you don't anymore: the all-nighters in college, the morning panic-burst that produced great work in your twenties, the planner you kept religiously for six weeks and then abandoned, the app you downloaded with high hopes that's now buried on your phone.

Your job has gotten more complex, the stakes have gotten higher, and the strategies that worked before are buckling under what they used to be able to handle.

You've been treated for anxiety, or depression, or both. The medication helped some, the therapy helped some, but the underlying issue stayed: the focus, the follow-through, the sense that things are just harder for you than they are for others around you.

You're starting to wonder if you've been treating the symptoms of something else the whole time.

Time doesn't work for you the way it seems to work for other people. An hour disappears into a task you thought would take twenty minutes. Or you wake up convinced you have plenty of time, look up an hour later, and realize you're going to be late again. The promise to leave fifteen minutes early never quite happens. The cushion you tried to build into the schedule keeps getting absorbed by the thing you sat down to do quickly that turned into the morning.

You've been considering whether you're in the wrong job. The role looked right from the outside, but it requires the kind of self-directed structure that consistently breaks down for you.

You're not sure if the right next move is a different role, a different industry, or a different way of working entirely. The decision feels too big to make without understanding why the current setup keeps failing you.

What an ADHD answer changes

You stop wondering. The question that's been with you for years (do I have ADHD or is something else going on) gets answered through a structured clinical assessment. The diagnostic impressions are documented in writing. Whether the answer is ADHD, something adjacent, or something else, you walk away with clinical clarity instead of another month of suspicion.

You stop adding every missed deadline and forgotten errand to the lazy-undisciplined column. The story you've been telling yourself since middle school (that you're not trying hard enough, that you lack discipline, that you're not as capable as people think) has a different explanation. The next time you forget something, the meaning of the forgetting changes, even if the forgetting itself doesn't stop right away.

Your partner reads the report and stops interpreting your forgotten promises as a values problem. The next conversation about the unreturned text, the missed appointment, the bill you said you'd pay starts from a clinical frame instead of a moral one. Whether you both build systems together, find a couples therapist, or just have one different conversation, the framing has changed.

You walk into your next annual review with clinical language for what your manager has been calling "inconsistent." Whether you choose to share the report or just use the framework to think differently about the feedback, the meeting doesn't have to land the same way it has every year. "Has so much potential" has a different meaning when you understand the structural reason the potential hasn't been getting realized.

The report becomes the document you bring to your psychiatrist or primary care provider. The medication conversation finally has a clinical foundation. The anxiety treatment that helped some but didn't reach the underlying focus problem can be recalibrated around what's underneath it, if your prescriber decides that's appropriate. The final prescribing decision rests with your medical provider, but the conversation starts from a different place.

The career questions you've been making decisions on blind start to have criteria. You know which work conditions consistently fail you (open-ended deliverables, self-directed timelines, work that requires you to invent your own structure) and which ones consistently work (external deadlines, project-based assignments, a teammate counting on you). The workbook gives you strategies to try on your own, or to take into therapy or coaching. The work going forward has a starting point you didn't have before.

How the assessment works

The clinical interview takes two hours over secure video. The structure follows the DIVA-5, the standard diagnostic interview for adult ADHD, mapped to DSM-5 criteria. We walk through your current symptoms, how things showed up earlier in your life, and the impact across work, relationships, and daily functioning. The assessment also screens for co-occurring conditions like anxiety and depression.

Within 7 to 10 business days, you receive a comprehensive written report and an ADHD tools workbook.

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Two-hour clinical interview

Comprehensive written report

ADHD tools workbook

conducted by secure video. The structured DIVA-5 framework covers symptoms, history, and the functional impacts in your work, home, and relationships.

delivered within 7 to 10 business days. Documents diagnostic findings, the functional picture, your compensatory strategies, and tailored next-step recommendations. Written in clear language for you and in clinical terms a prescriber or therapist can use.

with practical strategies for focus, time management, organization, and emotional regulation. Useful immediately, whether or not ADHD turns out to fit.

Cost and Logistics

Flat fee: $900. Includes the two-hour diagnostic interview, two hours of clinician scoring and report writing, and the ADHD tools workbook. Payment is due at booking; this is a private-pay service.

Report delivered securely by email within 7 to 10 business days after your appointment.

This assessment is not designed for: children or teens, formal workplace or academic accommodations, disability determinations (SSDI, SSI, private disability claims), court-ordered or forensic evaluations, or a full neuropsychological evaluation. Each of those requires a different type of assessment. If you need any of them, I'll provide referral options.