Thanks for linking me - though I would like to point out that my coaching project focuses on quite different things to what you have been focussing on so far in this notebook.

Let me write a skipping stoney/rabbit holey argument and then let’s have a long and involved discussion when it’s not a comment box -

Coaches don’t give advice when they are in a session with a client, but since this is a website comment, I think it would be great if you left the medication / psychiatry journal pathway for a little while and explored some of the reasons medications and other practical supports for ADHD exist, and some of the barriers, including bureaucracy, misunderstanding and misdiagnosis in therapeutics, and stigma against medication that ADHDers face.

Practical resources, such as the Australian ADHD Professionals Association Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline For ADHD (https://adhdguideline.aadpa.com.au/) are a good start.

More importantly, I would really love you to do a deep read of the ramifications of undiagnosed, untreated, and misunderstood outcomes for ADHDers, and their requirement to jump through clinical and governmental hoops to access support and treatment, which is currently subject to a Senate Committee (enquiry?) (https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/ADHD)

Reading through the hundreds of senate submissions (mine is in there, deidentified, see if you can find it) that reflect people’s lived experience can give a really different, and in my opinion, more relevant perspective on the way this topic is approached.

I know it’s hearing stories such as these that have made me want to focus more on improving ADHDers’ quality of life, happiness and connection. This can include medication if the person chooses (I know I did).

After reading the (as of writing) 600-odd submissions to to the committee, then try and find some psych papers that seek to match, understand or find a way forward for the struggles outlined here. I know I have tried (for example, try and search for studies related to ADHD meds and fertility… and have the results be about people with uteruses…) and have been disappointed so far.

But who am I to tell you what to include in your lovely notebooks that I love to rabbit hole down?