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I have been diagnosed (surprisingly, too, as I was being investigated for something else) and while I know ADHD "exists", I will concede it's probably an overly
by petercooper 5y ago
I have been diagnosed (surprisingly, too, as I was being investigated for something else) and while I know ADHD "exists", I will concede it's probably an overly broad compromise of a diagnosis for now. But then other well known conditions are too: IBS, fibromyalgia, CFS, for starters.
All these conditions represent something real going on, even if the currently used terms aren't precise. Much as celiac disease was considered a general bowel complaint by pre-1850s doctors before being eventually discovered, I think with ADHD we'll see more discrete conditions being discovered and understood too (e.g. a specific sub-condition that reduces the transport of dopamine in the brain, say). But, for now, ADHD is the term we've got to work with.
- staticelf 5y agoI think you just articulated my thoughts about the subject. Thanks! I wrote my comment pretty hastily and couldn't articulate well enough what I thought about the subject. Luckily people like you exists that can understand my shitty written comment and fine tune it to perfection. Even if I have it and would get a diagnose from my doctor, I don't think it would change my life for better or for worse so what's the point?