2023-10-27 08:43:11
Within the framework of National ADHD Day, the Spanish Federation of Associations to Help with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity (FEAADAH) has launched a campaign called #ADHDVAMOSALLÁ, in which it highlights the importance of the entry into working life of people who suffer from this disorder.
Image taken from the poster provided by the FEAADAH
October 27 is National Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Day. In this framework, the Spanish Federation of Associations to Help with Attention Deficit or Hyperactivity (FEAADAH) has launched the #ADHDVAMOSALLÁ campaign.
This project has been carried out since 2018 and, since then, each course focuses on a different area of the disorder. Thus, last year they addressed the chronicity of ADHD, while the current year focuses on the entry into the world of work for those who have it.
The culminating event of the campaign will be today, Friday the 27th, when some buildings in towns and cities will be illuminated orange to raise awareness among the population about the importance of knowing the implications of ADHD, whether it affects us directly or not.
Poster of the FEAADAH initiative. Image provided
October: awareness month
He National ADHD Day in Spain is part of the European Awareness Month about this disorder, which is October. This project is an initiative of ADHD EUROPE (Atention Deficit Hiperactivity Disorder Europa)of which the FEAADAH and other Spanish autonomous associations are a part.
Through this year’s campaign, the FEAADAH aims to give visibility to the difficulty that this represents for a
young person with ADHD entering the workplace. They also aim to remember that this change of stage can be really complicated without a good prior diagnosis, whether in childhood or adolescence.
Maite Urkizu, the president FEAADAHin an interview with EFEsalud, remembers the importance of this diagnosis: “We see the children who have had a multidisciplinary intervention with an early diagnosis, monitoring and support and they do have those tools and those strategies to overcome the difficulties.”
An early diagnosis is essential for addressing ADHD. EFE/Juanjo Martín
Work life
The change of stage from studying to doing an internship or starting to work is the focus of this year’s FEAADAH campaign.
Thus, the hashtag of this project (#ADHDVAMOSALLÁ) wants to make visible that people with ADHD, like many other young people, have great enthusiasm for this stage, although they face the world of work with greater uncertainty.
“You have to adapt to diversity. Are you going to accomplish the task you have to do? Yes, but maybe I can’t ask him for five things in a row, it might be better to send him an email and let him manage them. Of course he’s going to execute them all. The great difficulty of ADHD is that there is no awareness of its chronicity, there is no awareness that it is a disorder that accompanies you throughout your life in all areas: at work, in your relationship, in your life. social…” explains Maite Urkizu.
Support
In addition to showing its support and help to people with the diagnosis, on this National ADHD Day, FEAADAH also emphasizes the role of families. In this way, they have drafted a Manifesto in which they remember the “key” and decisive moments in which they must show their support more than ever:
The diagnosis: In some cases the diagnosis is an initial relief (“we know what is happening”). However, it is just the beginning. It is essential, as the association reminds us, that this diagnosis be made as soon as possible, since this way it will be addressed in a multidisciplinary manner as soon as possible and patients will obtain tools that will allow them to know themselves better and achieve their goals.
Knowledge: It is very important that the family is trained to understand all the aspects that the disorder covers (attention, effort, emotion…).
Awareness: Here professionals remember that it is natural to feel uncertainty when we understand that it is a chronic disorder that will accompany our loved one throughout their life.
Likewise, there are key moments for the person who has the diagnosis, such as deciding whether to study or take their first job.
The president of the FEAADAH indicates that it is very important to support them in all these stages and decisions.
“Accompany them, but let them decide. Try to give him the tools you can give him, but it is important that the decision about his professional future is his, solely and exclusively,” emphasizes Maite Urkizu.
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