Any sources? ADHD is a diagnosis based on symptoms. It has a number of causes. Your mental health professionals would prefer different diagnostic criteria. Tho

Any sources? ADHD is a diagnosis based on symptoms. It has a number of causes. Your mental health professionals would prefer different diagnostic criteria. Those other criteria would result in a different set of people being diagnosed with ADHD. The current diagnostic criteria are symptoms that cause problems for the sufferer. Thus successful treatment of ADHD as currently diagnosed improves lives. Why is the diagnostic criteria you describe better?