ADHD Management Available Via Processes ADHD Sufferers Cannot Complete

ADHD symptoms typically make it inordinately difficult to begin, let alone complete, even simple tasks if the process is daunting enough.

Jerusalem, March 25 – Sick Fund managers have implemented new metal health protocols for their members, an announcement declared Monday, under which patients seeking treatment for neurodivergence must navigate bureaucratic requirements that their neurodivergence renders impossible to see to the end.

Circulars at several of Israel’s public health insurance companies issued fresh procedures for the diagnosis and management of conditions such as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder that largely left the existing procedural framework intact and imposes additional paperwork and logistical hurdles that make it unlikely, if possible in the first place, for anyone with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder to surmount and thus reach treatment.

“It’s not specifically about the patient’s inability to navigate,” explained the chief neurologist at the MeUhedet sick fund, Prof. Ohad Sna’i. “ADHD and related conditions often have a strong hereditary component. The condition is most often suspected during childhood. That means the parents, usually, are the ones actually trying to navigate the labyrinth of forms, questionnaires, appointments, follow-ups, prescriptions, feedback mechanisms, scheduling, and other elements of the process. Because of the hereditary component, the parent or parents are themselves probably challenged to devote the requisite attention and focus to the process, and nine times out of then, they just give up.”

ADHD symptoms typically make it inordinately difficult to begin, let alone complete, even simple tasks if the process is daunting enough. Popular misconceptions aside, people with ADHD can and will maintain intense focus – on pursuits they value or enjoy. Compounding the issue, experts note, ADHD often presents with other disorders such as autism-spectrum, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Tourette Syndrome, Opposition-Defiance Disorder, and others. Those additional factors throw up even more hurdles in front of people who need help to address those conditions.

Professor Sna’i explained the protocols as necessary to filter out as many applicants as possible because of limited capacity in the mental health system to handle all the ADHD and related conditions. As things stand, he elaborated, the applicants who need assistance less, as demonstrated by their ability to surmount all of the bureaucratic and logistical hurdles, will succeed in gaining treatment and management tools from the public health system, while those who need it more desperately will remain unable to penetrate the Byzantine pitfalls and requirements, and refrain from following through. That, in turn, will perpetuate and exacerbate an Israeli mental health crisis already exploding in the wake of the October 7 massacre and ongoing hostage crisis, ensuring that mental health professionals have high employment for many years.

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