Personalized ADHD Treatment for a Focused, Productive Life
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Effective ADHD Treatment for Adults in Utah
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental health condition that can severely impair your ability to stay focused, be productive, and act according to your capabilities. ADHD can turn the smallest of tasks into unsurpassable mountains, creating unnecessary stress. When left untreated, these roadblocks may start to take a toll on your life. You may struggle to keep in contact with your friends, meet deadlines, or stay focused. Now is the time to make a change!
Don’t let ADHD–a highly treatable condition–be the reason you aren’t living up to your potential. Contact a therapist at Smile Psychiatry today to start turning your life around.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental health condition characterized by its impact on executive functioning skills, such as concentration, motivation, impulsivity, hyperactivity, and memory. Many people with ADHD do not recognize that their behaviors are abnormal until adulthood, when ADHD becomes more relevant and, when left untreated, debilitating.
When something is debilitating, it impairs your strength or ability to function. When your mind isn’t functioning properly, you may struggle to operate in the ways that your occupation, friends, family, and responsibilities demand of you. Maybe you find that your mind wanders no matter how hard you try to listen. Maybe you keep forgetting things, and it’s putting a strain on your relationships or your performance at work. Maybe you feel restless and impulsive, or distracted and unmotivated. Maybe you feel frustrated with yourself because no matter how hard you try, you’re not doing everything you think you should be capable of. If this feels like you, you may benefit from ADHD-focused therapy.
Here at Smile Psychiatry, we employ therapists who are passionate about and experienced in treating ADHD, which means we can work with you to create a unique treatment plan that will address your condition and the way it affects you personally.
What Are the Symptoms of ADHD?
ADHD is different for everyone, and symptoms may appear in various ways depending on your situation and responsibilities. Many adults with ADHD struggle to:
- Organize items or ideas
- Remember what they were going to say or do
- Keep track of important objects
- Be patient with others
- Manage their emotions or temper
- Listen without interrupting
- Control impulses
- Meet deadlines
- Prioritize tasks
- Stay still and/or focused
- Complete a project before starting a new one
How Do You Know If You Have ADHD?
Although ADHD is often diagnosed in childhood, many people don’t realize they have ADHD until adulthood because of the way it interferes with their ability to complete daily tasks. Depending on the symptoms that you experience, your level of functionality may range from complete task paralysis to suppressed distress. At the end of the day, what matters is whether or not you feel like you are at your best. If you feel like you’re not functioning as well as you want to, or if you experience distress or difficulty with simple tasks, you may have ADHD–and a diagnosis could be your first step toward treatment and change.
The ADHD diagnostic process begins with a healthcare consultation to discuss your symptoms. If you know you want to be tested for ADHD, you can request time be referred to a psychiatrist or to a psychologist. First, you will meet with them to discuss your symptoms and medical history, and then your evaluator may send you your results electronically or schedule another appointment with you to discuss your diagnoses and a plan for treatment. Whether or not you are diagnosed with ADHD, this follow-up session will be an opportunity for you to look into other possible conditions and discuss treatment options and available resources.
What Are the Different Types of ADHD?
Inattentive ADHD
Inattentive ADHD is a type of ADHD that predominantly impacts a person’s ability to focus, pay attention, and remember things. Some of the most common symptoms of inattentive ADHD include misplacing important items, forgetting important tasks, struggling to pay attention, and procrastinating.
Combined ADHD
Combined ADHD isa combination of inattentive ADHD and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD, and thus displays elements of hyperactivity as well as inattentiveness.
Hyperactive-Impulsive ADHD
Hyperactive-impulsive ADHD is another type of ADHD that displays more observable symptoms related to difficulties with impulse control and restlessness. Some symptoms unique to this form of ADHD include interrupting others, fidgeting, and talking excessively.
How ADHD Treatment Help?
The purpose of therapy is to help you be happy with your life. At Smile Psychiatry–it says it in the name–we want to put a genuine smile on your face, and we can do that by teaching you coping strategies for ADHD so that you can become a better version of yourself and live a life you’re proud of.
ADHD gets a bad rap. In today’s media, it’s often either adopted as a personality trait or shunned as an excuse for laziness. We want to emphasize to you that having ADHD does not mean you are lazy. On the contrary, it means that your mind, because of its unique structure, has to work much harder than the neurotypical mind to achieve the same level of productivity. This is because you are likely trying to motivate, discipline, and improve yourself with the techniques that work for a neurotypical brain structure, but may not work for you. Therapy is an opportunity for you to learn the strategies that work for you and your unique mind, strategies that will allow you to achieve everything you’re capable of every day.
If there’s one thing we want you to know about therapy and ADHD, it’s that completing everyday tasks doesn’t have to be difficult. If you have untreated ADHD, constant frustration, procrastination, and disappointment may be the norm for you. Maybe you didn’t know until now that what you’re experiencing is abnormal. Whatever the case, we want to show you that it is possible to feel better–more motivated, more calm, more hopeful. And here at Smile Psychiatry, we have the tools–specialized treatment plans, person-focused therapy, and integrated psychiatric and therapeutic services–to help you achieve that.
How Does Medication Help With ADHD?
ADHD medication is a bit like wearing glasses–it helps the mind stay focused and clear. Although medication is not always necessary, it can be a great supplement to therapy when symptoms are too potent to respond to coping mechanisms. Medication will not cure your ADHD, but it will soften some of the difficulties that come with it by increasing your focus, reducing impulsive behaviors and hyperactivity, and improving executive function.
Looking for Help With ADHD?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: you don’t have to keep feeling like this. Whether you’ve experienced ADHD your whole life or don’t yet know if you have it at all, the challenges you are facing are real and frustrating and not your fault. Brains are messy, life is messy, but you don’t have to figure this out alone. Give us your mess–your frustrations, anger, disappointments, failures, hopes–and let us help you make sense of it all.
Here at Smile Psychiatry, we love what we do. Despite evolving psychiatric practices, our priority will always be you–not the insurance, not how long the session is, not how fast we can “fix” you, not how efficient or simple or successful your treatment plan is. You and your hopes will always come first for us, and we want to show that to you by creating a unique treatment plan, discussing your therapy goals, and–most of all–getting to know you.
If this sounds like you–the ADHD, the challenges, the habits, the quirks, the person-focused therapy and compassionate mindset unique to Smile Psychiatry–give us a call today. You may be closer to feeling better than you realize, and we can help you get there.
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