Steady

When to seek medical help

Coaching has limits. Here's how to know.

Steady supports skills, planning and routines. The list below is when we'd want you to step out of Steady and into clinical or urgent support.

If you're in immediate danger

See your GP soon

  • Persistent low mood, hopelessness, or loss of interest for more than two weeks.
  • Severe sleep disruption (less than 4 hours for more than a few nights).
  • Signs of hypomania/mania: little need for sleep, racing thoughts, risky decisions, sustained elevated mood.
  • Substance use that's feeling out of your control.
  • Panic, anxiety or rumination that stops you functioning at work, college or home.
  • Significant impact on relationships, finances or work that coaching alone isn't shifting.

Ask about the HSE adult ADHD pathway

In Ireland, the HSE National Clinical Programme for ADHD in Adults provides a specialist public pathway for assessment and treatment, accessed via your GP or adult mental health team. If you're considering assessment for ADHD, your GP is the right first conversation. We'll prepare you for it.

See our Irish resources page for current signposting, and bring our GP-prep checklist with you to the appointment.

Already on medication?

Steady can help with the lifestyle, sleep and behavioural side of things alongside your prescriber. Any question about medication — dose, side effects, switching, stopping — belongs with your prescribing clinician, never us.