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How does "Accepting ADHD as a thing" mean we're not digging deeper? Would it help if the collection of symptoms were totally disregarded? Since Cancer was disco
by brailsafe 6y ago
How does "Accepting ADHD as a thing" mean we're not digging deeper? Would it help if the collection of symptoms were totally disregarded? Since Cancer was discovered, has investment declined? How can you begin to ask if there's nothing to ask questions about?
Side note: Most governments and most people didn't look too highly upon homosexuality, and we don't know everything about it, but things have changed and we haven't invalidated everything that said something different than we currently believe.
- yotamoron 6y agoAccepting ADHD as a thing, immediately means accepting all the so-called treatments for it (Concerta, Ritalin etc), which immediately creates a (huge) market, with market forces that will do everything possible to maintain the market alive and kicking - hence standing in the way of digging deeper. Cancer is diagnosed in a very methodological and strict way, and the fact that we discovered it doesn't mean we discovered the cure for it (sadly, curing cancer is very hard). I have no problem with ADHD being a defined disorder that we can ask questions about - as long as we understand that it is not a thing, cannot be objectively diagnosed (and therefore treatments are as vague as the diagnosis), and people cannot have it (the same way we have a flu or COVID-19). About homosexuality - it was just an example of how the psychiatric bible - i.e., the DSM - can get things horribly wrong and therefore should be taken with a grain of salt.