> Is it really possible that this many people are ill, or is society expecting impossible things from people and ADHD-like symptoms are the consequence. Or is i

> Is it really possible that this many people are ill, or is society expecting impossible things from people and ADHD-like symptoms are the consequence. Or is it something else? I've never researched any of this but something does feel off to me. Imagine going to a therapist and describing "I can't concentrate on anything, all I do is bounce around in 100 different directions". How long would it take for them to get diagnosed as having ADHD? What if they don't have ADHD but are addicted to social media? If cases of ADHD have risen over the last ~15 years and ~15 years is when "popular" social media started, personally I find it hard to believe these things aren't connected in some way. Like a lot of illnesses maybe a ton of people are susceptible to having their concentration broken by expected dopamine hits but in the past nothing engaged them in this way before so it wasn't even thought of as a problem. But now we have dozens of super optimized engagement tools and now after reading 3 paragraphs in a book you feel compelled to check XYZ site to see if someone liked or commented on something you wrote and you convince yourself you have ADHD. I'm not downplaying ADHD or think it doesn't exist but it does make me curious how eerily inline the timing is with highly addicted tools fighting for your attention every day.