He was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult: “It is important that my son is diagnosed and helped as a child”

She was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult: “It is important that my child is diagnosed and helped as a child”

Inside the children’s room there is a board with reminder notes for different days. Unpack the gym bag, soccer practice, homework. It’s help that Veronica Terning’s family has been able to borrow since their son was diagnosed with ADHD after much struggle.

“For me, it was very important that my son was diagnosed and helped as a child. Otherwise, you have the same problem as an adult, which I have today, ”says Veronica Terning, who for a long time suspected that her difficulties were due to ADHD.Image: Ingemar D Kristiansen

It is not easy in the Skåne Region, where the wait times for ADHD investigations in child and adolescent psychiatry (bup) are still two years. A controversial decision was made on Thursday to buy neuropsychiatric research from private care providers, something the bourgeois regional government hopes will shorten the queues.