Understanding what you've been given.
After the feedback appointment, a written report follows. This page is about what to do when it lands.
First the feedback, then the report.
Your feedback appointment is where the main conversation happens. We walk through the findings together, answer the questions that matter most to you, and talk about what the assessment means for your daily life. A written report follows within approximately two weeks. It is the formal document you can keep, share, and return to whenever you need it. For most people, reading the report properly is its own quiet moment, separate from the appointment itself.
A plain English walk-through of your own mind.
The report is written to be read, not decoded. Plain English throughout, technical terms explained where they are needed, and nothing added to sound impressive. Four sections carry the weight of it.
- Your presentation summary. A clear, faithful account of what you have told us, in your own sequence and often in your own words. This is the mirror held up to your own story, organised so you can see the shape of it.
- How it relates to ADHD. Which diagnostic criteria are met, how they map onto your life, and the clinical reasoning behind the conclusion. This is the part you can share with a GP, a prescriber, or an employer if you choose to.
- How it relates to overlapping features. ADHD rarely arrives alone. Where anxiety, emotional regulation difficulties, sleep problems, or other features are playing into the picture, they are named and explained, so you see the whole landscape rather than one hill of it.
- Personalised recommendations. Specific, practical suggestions for you, based on what came out of the interview and the data. Not a generic next-steps sheet, and not advice we give to everyone.
Take it one step at a time.
There is no rush. The report is not a summons, and it is not a diagnosis you have to act on immediately. We suggest, more or less every time, the same unhurried sequence.
Sit with it. Let the words land. Read it once, put it down, come back to it a day or two later. Most people find they notice different things on the second reading.
Digest it. A formal document describing your own mind is a strange thing to read. Some parts will feel obvious and comforting. Others may catch you off guard. Both responses are common, and neither is wrong.
Notice that the world has not actually changed. You are the same person you were a week ago. Everything you have managed to do, you still have done. Everything you are good at is still true. What has changed is the framing. You now have a clearer explanation for why some things have felt harder than they should have, and that explanation is yours to keep.
When you are ready, and not before, start to think about what you want to do with it.
The diagnosis is not a verdict. It is a frame. Everything you have always been is still there, now better understood.
The routes ahead, in no particular order.
If specific questions come up as you read, bring them to your feedback appointment or email them through afterwards. Nothing about understanding a report has to happen in isolation, and small clarifying conversations often help more than extra reading does.
From there, the paths forward split. Some are practical, some are clinical, some are about making sense of the shift internally.
The practical routes include thinking about workplace adjustments and your rights, shared care arrangements with the NHS, and the broader territory of living well after diagnosis.
The internal route is the hardest to describe, because it differs for everyone. For some people, the report is quietly validating. For others, it brings a period of reflection, or even grief, for the version of life that might have been different with earlier recognition.
Whichever of these you reach for first is the right one.
Help is always a message away.
If something in your report is unclear, or you want to talk it through again, get in touch. For those not yet assessed, a free consultation call is the simplest place to start.