Editorial policy

• Plain language. If a reader needs a dictionary, we have failed.
• Sources you can check. Claims about ADHD link to the research or the institution they came from.
• Honest about limits. Where the evidence is thin, or where something is a community term rather than a clinical one, we say so in the article.
• Free and independent. No ads, no sponsorship, no paid placements, no funding from pharmaceutical companies or clinics.

Topics come from what people actually search for and ask about — the questions that bring readers to the site, gaps where no good plain-language answer exists in a given language, and requests sent to support@adhd.lk. We deliberately cover ordinary daily problems (starting tasks, sleep, cleaning, relationships, driving) rather than only clinical overviews, because that is where most people are stuck.

• World Health Organization — including the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v1.1) used on our self-test.
• US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
• Peer-reviewed research, located through PubMed and similar databases.
• Sri Lankan public institutions for local guidance — the National Institute of Mental Health, the Ministry of Health, teaching and district hospitals, and national helplines.

Where a claim is contested or the research is weak, the article says so rather than presenting it as settled.

Articles are researched, drafted and edited by the ADHD.lk team, with AI writing tools used in the drafting stage. Everything published is edited before it goes live, and responsibility for what appears on this site rests with me, Nishnath Thaweesha.

Each article shows its published date and, where it has been revised, its updated date. Articles are revised when guidance changes, when a reader points out a problem, or when we can explain something better.

Our content is not reviewed by a clinician. We state this plainly rather than implying medical authority we do not have. Articles are written from published sources by someone who lives with ADHD, not by a doctor.

We would welcome clinical review. If you are a psychiatrist, psychologist, paediatrician or other qualified professional willing to review material — particularly in Sinhala or Tamil — please get in touch at support@adhd.lk. Reviewers are credited by name on the pages they check, unless they prefer otherwise.

• Diagnose anyone, or tell a reader they have ADHD.
• Give advice on medication, dosages or changes to treatment.
• Recommend specific private practitioners or clinics.
• Publish sponsored content, affiliate links or paid reviews.
• Promise cures, or claim ADHD can be "overcome" or "fixed".

If anything here is wrong, outdated or misleading, tell us: support@adhd.lk or the contact form, choosing "Correction or error report".

We aim to respond within a few working days. Factual errors are corrected as quickly as we can manage; where a correction changes the meaning of an article, the updated date on the page reflects it. Corrections from clinicians and public institutions are prioritised.

Articles in each language are written for readers of that language rather than translated word for word, because a literal translation of ADHD material reads badly and often misleads.

One important limitation: the Sinhala and Tamil versions of the ASRS self-test questions are unofficial translations, not the WHO's own validated versions, and the assessment page says so where the test is taken.

ADHD.lk carries no advertising and no sponsorship, sells no products, and takes no money from pharmaceutical companies, clinics or app makers. Running costs are paid by its owner. Nobody can pay to appear on this site, be linked from it, or be listed in the help directory.