That article is incredibly damning. The "TikTok-ification" of medicine is pretty frightening as well. > One ADHD content creator, Reece Palamar, has posted ab

That article is incredibly damning. The "TikTok-ification" of medicine is pretty frightening as well. > One ADHD content creator, Reece Palamar, has posted about a half-dozen Cerebral-related videos to his almost 600,000 TikTok followers. (https://www.tiktok.com/@reeceisrandom?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@reeceisrandom?lang=en) > In [another ad] a woman is asked: “Yo, bro, who got you smiling like that?” She then begins dancing with a box of prescription pills. (https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthaswanson1?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@samanthaswanson1?lang=en) Do either of these creators look like they're qualified to provide medical advice? They're getting millions of views to dance around and convince people that they have ADHD and need amphetamines. Why? Because they have trouble keeping their lives organized in an age of smartphones and constant media bombardment. But doesn't everyone? > Some ads suggest that symptoms as common as difficulty with multitasking, focusing, and stress, as well as poor planning, procrastination, and disorganization can all be symptoms of ADHD. (They can also, as one former Cerebral nurse says, “simply be attributed to being an adult in 2022.”) While this article is particular to Cerebral, they are not the only offenders. There is a whole cottage industry around convincing people with mild organizational problems that they have ADHD, even in "traditional" psychiatry. It's happened to family members and friends of mine. I was diagnosed with ADHD and went through an Adderall -> Vyvanse -> Ritalin pipeline. I eventually settled on using half of the smallest available dose of Ritalin (5mg/2 = 2.5mg) and that is plenty for me. It's scary how many people I know who are dependent on regular doses of 30+mg of amphetamines.