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ADHD test Ireland
Answer six questions about the last six months to see whether your answers match the pattern the adult ADHD screener looks for.
- The six-question ASRS v1.1 Part A screener
- Scored per question, the way the scale is designed
- Runs in your browser — nothing is sent or stored
Your answers
For each question, choose how often it has applied to you over the past six months.
0 / 6
Screening result: negative
Your answers do not match the pattern this screener looks for. That does not rule ADHD out — six questions cover only part of it — so if these difficulties are affecting your work, your studies or your relationships, talk to a doctor anyway.
- Positive screen
- 4 or more of 6
This is a screening questionnaire, not a diagnosis. ADHD is diagnosed only by a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist, after a full assessment. Nothing here is a recommendation for medication.
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How the screen is scored
The questions are Part A of the World Health Organization's Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale — the short form used to decide whether a full assessment is worth arranging, rather than the assessment itself.
Scoring is per question, not a running total. Each item has its own threshold, and four or more items reaching their own threshold is a positive screen. Treating it as a flat "four answers of Often" rule is the usual mistake, and it misses the inattentive presentation, which is the one most often overlooked in adults.
1
- What it asks about
- Finishing the last details of a project
- Counts from
- Sometimes
2
- What it asks about
- Getting things in order for a task
- Counts from
- Sometimes
3
- What it asks about
- Remembering appointments and commitments
- Counts from
- Sometimes
4
- What it asks about
- Putting off tasks that take a lot of thought
- Counts from
- Often
5
- What it asks about
- Fidgeting when you have to stay seated
- Counts from
- Often
6
- What it asks about
- Feeling restlessly driven to keep going
- Counts from
- Often
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What ADHD looks like in adults
Adult ADHD rarely looks like the classroom picture. Hyperactivity often turns inward — restlessness, a mind that will not settle — while the inattentive side stays and gets expensive: missed deadlines, unopened admin, a working memory that keeps dropping things.
What matters for a diagnosis is that the difficulties are long-standing, show up in more than one part of life, and cause real impairment. Everyone loses their keys occasionally; that is not what is being asked.
- Starting tasks that matter, and finishing the ones that have stopped being interesting.
- Time: underestimating it, losing it, arriving late despite genuinely trying not to.
- Organisation — paperwork, bills, appointments — costing far more effort than it seems to cost other people.
- Restlessness, or a constant low-level need to be doing something.
- Interrupting, blurting things out, or acting on an idea before thinking it through.
- Emotions that arrive fast and pass fast, often out of proportion to what caused them.
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What this screen cannot tell you
A six-question screener is a sorting tool. It is deliberately quick and deliberately over-inclusive, because its job is to decide who should be assessed properly — not to decide who has ADHD.
- It is not a diagnosis, and a positive result on its own means no more than "worth assessing".
- A negative result does not rule ADHD out, particularly for the inattentive presentation and particularly in women, who are diagnosed later and less often.
- Anxiety, depression, poor sleep, thyroid disease, chronic pain and heavy drinking all produce the same answers.
- It cannot separate ADHD from autism, from a specific learning difficulty, or from the effects of a long stretch of stress.
- It was designed and validated for adults. Children and teenagers need a different assessment entirely.
- It says nothing about treatment. Medication is one option among several, and it is only ever considered after a diagnosis.
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Getting properly assessed
A diagnosis of ADHD is made by a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist. The assessment is a structured clinical interview covering your history from childhood onwards, usually with rating scales and, where possible, an account from someone who has known you a long time.
- Start with a doctor. They will go through your history, check for the conditions that look like ADHD, and refer you for assessment.
- Bring specifics rather than a score: school reports, work reviews, the things that keep going wrong and how long they have been going wrong for.
- Say what else is going on — sleep, mood, alcohol, thyroid, a past head injury. Those change both the assessment and the order it happens in.
- A screening result is a starting point for that conversation, not a substitute for it. Take yours with you.
- If you are struggling to cope, or having thoughts of harming yourself, contact a doctor or the emergency services now rather than waiting for an assessment.
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ADHD test — FAQs
Can an online ADHD test diagnose ADHD?
No, and no online questionnaire can. This is a screener: it sorts people into "worth assessing properly" and "not on these answers". A diagnosis is made by a psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist, from a full interview about your history rather than from six questions.
What is the ASRS?
The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale, developed with the World Health Organization. Part A is the six-question screener used here; the full scale has eighteen items. It is the most widely used adult ADHD screening instrument, which is why clinicians recognise the result you bring them.
What counts as a positive result?
Four or more of the six questions answered at or above that question's own threshold. The first three count from "Sometimes", the last three only from "Often" — the thresholds differ because the questions do, and a single flat cut-off would miss the inattentive presentation.
Can I have ADHD if my result is negative?
Yes. Six questions cannot cover a condition that presents differently at different ages and in different people, and the inattentive presentation in particular is under-detected — one reason women are diagnosed later and less often. If the difficulties are affecting your life, a negative screen is not a reason to stop asking.
Who can diagnose ADHD?
A psychiatrist or a clinical psychologist, depending on the country. A GP is normally where the process starts: they take the history, rule out the conditions that mimic ADHD — thyroid problems, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression — and refer you on for the assessment itself.
Does this ADHD test store my answers?
No. The scoring runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you select is sent to our servers or saved.
How do I get assessed for ADHD in Ireland?
Through a GP first. Adult ADHD is assessed by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, whether that happens in the public mental health services or privately, and a GP referral is what starts either route. The GP also checks the things that look like ADHD — thyroid function, sleep, anxiety, depression — before anyone assesses for it.
Can I be prescribed ADHD medication from an online test?
No, and be wary of anywhere that offers it. ADHD medicines are controlled drugs, started only after a full assessment and a diagnosis by a specialist, and prescribing afterwards is normally shared between that specialist and your GP. Our Irish-registered doctors can review a screening result, rule out the conditions that mimic ADHD and refer you on — they cannot diagnose it in a video call.
Want to talk your result through?
Book a video consultation with a registered doctor, go through your history and the conditions that can look like ADHD, and find out what an assessment would involve.