ADHD Care · Adults & Children · Online Across India & New Delhi
Not everything is ADHD. And real ADHD deserves to be found. Dr. Shaurya Garg, MD Psychiatry (AIIMS New Delhi), offers structured ADHD assessment and treatment for adults and children: medication when indicated, evidence-based non-pharmacological strategies always. Read how a clinician-led adult ADHD assessment works.
A structured clinical assessment, reviewed personally by Dr. Garg. Unlocked after an ADHD consultation.
What ADHD Actually Is
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder: a real, well-studied difference in how the brain manages attention, impulse, and effort. It is not a personality quirk, a character flaw, or an internet trend.
For a diagnosis of ADHD, symptoms are not enough. There must be dysfunction: a measurable impact on studies, work, relationships, or daily life, with a chronic, trait-like course that begins in childhood. Everyone forgets things, procrastinates, and loses focus sometimes. That alone is not a disorder. What distinguishes ADHD is a lifelong pattern that consistently costs a person things that matter to them.
Because ADHD begins early, it deserves to be identified early. Undiagnosed, it quietly shapes a child's schooling, self-esteem, friendships, and later an adult's career, finances, and relationships. Much of that cost is preventable with timely, accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Careful Diagnosis
ADHD today is simultaneously overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed. Some clinicians hand out the label after a ten-minute conversation; others miss it entirely, especially in adults, in women, and in high achievers who have compensated for years. Both errors harm patients: one medicates a problem that isn't there, the other leaves a real disorder untreated.
Brain fog, procrastination, and poor productivity have many possible causes. Underlying anxiety can fragment attention. Depression can flatten motivation. Poor sleep can mimic almost every ADHD symptom. Personality traits such as perfectionism, avoidance, and novelty-seeking can look like inattention without being a disorder. And sometimes procrastination is simply procrastination.
Dr. Garg's clinical training at AIIMS New Delhi centred precisely on this discipline: differential diagnosis: systematically distinguishing ADHD from the conditions that imitate it, and identifying it when it hides behind achievement. He does not make the diagnosis lightly, and he does not withhold it when the evidence is there.
One more distinction matters: a diagnosis is not an identity. ADHD explains certain patterns; it does not define a person, excuse everything, or belong in a bio as a personality type. Good psychiatric care helps patients understand what is ADHD, what is habit, and what is simply being human, and treats each accordingly.
How ADHD Shows Up
ADHD affects far more than attention. These are the patterns patients most often bring to the clinic.
High Performers
High intelligence can mask ADHD for years, until the compensation stops working.
Dr. Garg has worked with hundreds of high-performing students and professionals, including AIIMS and IIT rankers, UPSC aspirants, founders, and senior professionals, whose ability carried them through school until the sheer volume of competitive preparation or professional life outran raw intelligence. For these patients, treatment is not about "fixing laziness." It is about structured, clinical support: understanding their attention patterns, channelising intensity and hyperfocus productively, and building sustainable routines for long preparation cycles.
Treatment always combines two tracks. Medication, when indicated: prescribed conservatively, explained clearly, titrated carefully, and reviewed regularly. And evidence-based non-pharmacological management: psychoeducation, behavioural structuring, cognitive strategies for planning and time perception, sleep correction, and environmental design. Many patients do well without medication; some need it; the assessment determines which, not assumptions.
The Assessment
ADHD assessment in this practice follows a structured clinical pathway. It begins with a consultation: history, differential diagnosis, and clinical screening. Patients who are clinically appropriate for detailed assessment then receive private access to a structured assessment portal, built on a structured clinical interview covering all eighteen DSM-5 symptoms across childhood and adulthood, onset, and impairment across life domains. Every response is then reviewed and verified by Dr. Garg personally before any conclusion is reached, and a formal clinical report can be issued after review.
Medication Education
Medication is one part of ADHD treatment, not a diagnostic test and not an automatic next step after a questionnaire. Choice depends on age, impairment, heart and blood-pressure history, sleep, anxiety or mood symptoms, substance risk, other medicines, pregnancy considerations and informed preference.
Immediate-release and modified-release formulations are marketed in India. It is the main stimulant option available here, but it is a Schedule X and NDPS-listed medicine. It cannot be prescribed by teleconsultation in India and needs appropriate in-person prescribing and pharmacy controls.
A non-stimulant option that may be considered when a stimulant is unsuitable, not tolerated or not preferred. It is taken regularly and benefit builds over weeks rather than being judged from a single dose.
NICE also names lisdexamfetamine for adults, but it is not currently marketed in India. Clonidine may be used in selected specialist-led or adjunct situations; it is not a routine first-line adult ADHD medicine.
This is not a prescription or recommendation. Do not start, stop, change formulation or substitute a product from this page. Immediate-release, sustained-release and once-daily products may deliver methylphenidate differently and should not be treated as interchangeable. The dated ADHD medication in India guide explains verified examples, supply and legal rules.
Clinical reference: NICE NG87, ADHD diagnosis and management. Indian availability and prescribing law can differ from UK guidance.
Read Before You Book
Nine patient-education guides, each written from current guidance and cited so you can check the source. They are educational and do not diagnose the reader.
In His Own Words
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In Delhi and Online
In-person consultations take place at Annova Health, inside The Face Centre, 3rd Floor, 41 Ring Road, Block Q, Lajpat Nagar 4, New Delhi 110024, Monday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm, by appointment. The building is on Ring Road itself and is reached easily from Defence Colony, Jangpura, South Extension, Greater Kailash, East of Kailash, CR Park, Kalkaji and Nehru Place. Moolchand and Lajpat Nagar metro stations are both close by. Directions and a fuller clinic guide are on the Lajpat Nagar clinic page.
Where travelling to the clinic is not practical, the assessment itself can be done by secure video anywhere in India. Prescribing is where the line falls. Methylphenidate, the only ADHD stimulant marketed in India, is both NDPS-listed and Schedule X, and the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020 place those medicines on the prohibited list. It cannot be prescribed by teleconsultation at any stage, first prescription or repeat, so an in-person appointment is required for that part of treatment. Atomoxetine and clonidine are not on that list.
An in-person consultation is ₹3,000 for 30 minutes. Online is ₹2,500 for 30 minutes, or ₹4,000 for a pre-booked 60 minutes. An adult ADHD assessment usually takes more than one appointment, since developmental history, current function and the conditions that imitate ADHD all have to be looked at properly. Full details are on the fees page.
Common Questions
Possibly, but not necessarily. Procrastination has many causes: anxiety, low mood, poor sleep, perfectionism, or simply an unstructured routine. ADHD is diagnosed only when there is a lifelong, trait-like pattern with clear dysfunction across life domains. A structured assessment distinguishes these; that distinction is the whole point of a careful diagnosis.
Yes. Many adults, especially women and high achievers, were missed in childhood because ability or environment compensated for the symptoms. Adult diagnosis requires evidence that symptoms began in childhood, which the structured assessment specifically examines.
Not necessarily. Medication is discussed only when clinically indicated, and always alongside evidence-based non-pharmacological strategies. Many patients do well with structured behavioural and cognitive approaches alone. When medication is used, it is explained clearly, started conservatively, and reviewed regularly.
Yes. High intelligence can mask ADHD for years. It often becomes visible when demands outgrow compensation: competitive exam preparation, medical or engineering college, or senior professional roles. Achievement does not rule out ADHD; it sometimes hides it.
Children are assessed with age-appropriate clinical interviews, school and parent input, and careful attention to other explanations such as anxiety, learning difficulties, or family stress. Parents are involved throughout, and early accurate diagnosis is one of the most valuable things psychiatry can offer a child.
Yes. The consultation and the structured assessment are both available online across India, with in-person appointments in New Delhi. The assessment portal is completed privately at your own pace, and every response is reviewed by Dr. Garg before any conclusion is reached.
A consultation is ₹3,000 for 30 minutes in person in Lajpat Nagar, or ₹2,500 for 30 minutes online, with a pre-booked 60-minute online session at ₹4,000. An assessment usually takes more than one appointment, because developmental history, current function and the conditions that imitate ADHD all have to be looked at properly. The full fee list is published on the site.
Annova Health, inside The Face Centre, 3rd Floor, 41 Ring Road, Block Q, Lajpat Nagar 4, New Delhi 110024. The building is on Ring Road itself, a short drive from Defence Colony, South Extension, Greater Kailash and East of Kailash, with Moolchand and Lajpat Nagar metro stations both nearby. Consultations are Monday to Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm, by appointment.
Not stimulants. Methylphenidate is the only ADHD stimulant marketed in India, and it is both NDPS-listed and Schedule X. The Telemedicine Practice Guidelines 2020 place those medicines on the prohibited list, so methylphenidate cannot be prescribed by teleconsultation at any stage, first prescription or repeat, and an in-person appointment is required. Atomoxetine and clonidine are not on that list. Any service offering to start stimulant treatment entirely online in India is not following the rules.
Assessments are done at the Lajpat Nagar clinic in South Delhi, and by secure video for people elsewhere in India. What matters more than the location is what the assessment actually involves: a developmental history, current function across more than one setting, and a deliberate look at the conditions that resemble ADHD. A questionnaire score on its own is not an assessment.
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