ADHD Daily Impact Test: Work, Relationships & Emotions

This interactive test covers work, organization, time, memory, concentration, commitments, couple and family, anger, mood, frustration, guilt, procrastination and readiness to change. What the test asks, for example Work Whether you hand in what you have to hand in after the agreed date. Whether a long-term task you've been given gets bogged down before it is completed. Organization Whether the time slot you had set aside for an important task gets used for something else. Whether, faced with a big project, you struggle to break it into steps and fit them into the week. Time Whether you arrive late to an appointment even though everything was ready well ahead of time. Whether you announce how long a task will take, and in reality it takes you far longer. Memory Whether you forget a birthday or an appointment that is nonetheless written in your phone. Whether an instruction given to you out loud in passing has slipped your mind by the time you need to apply it. Concentration Whether noise, notifications and people coming and going around you break your concentration. Whether, after a call interrupts you, you restart your task well before the point you had reached. Commitments Whether your lateness for dinner or your forgotten birthdays annoy the people close to you. Whether a promise made to someone close to you in the morning has slipped your mind by the evening. Couple and family Whether a sentence blurted out too fast sets off an argument with your partner. Whether, at home, the people close to you get annoyed with the way you function. Anger Whether a jammed printer sets off anger in you out of all proportion. Whether, after something upsets you, calm takes a long time to come back to you. Mood Whether a setback early in the morning spoils your mood until lunch. Whether, from one day to the next, your emotions make things hard for you. Frustration Whether, when the day doesn't go as planned, frustration overwhelms you. Whether, when a request is turned down partway through, it discourages you to the point of dropping it. Guilt Whether, in the evening, looking at your list, shame or guilt wells up. Whether, with the people close to you, the fear of disappointing them stays present in the background. Procrastination Whether you get down to it at the last moment, once the deadline has become urgent. Whether the schedule you set at the start of the week falls apart before it reaches the end. Readiness to change Whether what you've just described weighs on your daily life. Whether you want to change the way you function day to day.