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The last line is logically ambiguous. In Europe, I believe in 2019, they found two effects: a significant _underdiagnosis_, offset by a tiny over diagnosis; now

The last line is logically ambiguous. In Europe, I believe in 2019, they found two effects: a significant _underdiagnosis_, offset by a tiny over diagnosis; now you could argue phones and screens artificially raise the genetic baseline, or that America is inherently different. But I will tell you ADHD meds calm me down, or when measured with a heart strap monitor over a full day fairly meaningfully lower my heart rate. It’s perhaps a meme now that adhd is over diagnosed, but I’d guess the majority is pill seeking individuals looking to compete at school or at work and less false positive diagnoses such as yours. Net net you seem to have solved it fairly quickly so at least that’s good: even when you get the diagnosis wrong if you can backtrack without significant cost then maybe it’s not absolutely horrible.

philliphaydon 4y ago
Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it doesn’t exist or the meds are pointless. Absolutely there are people with ADHD and meds work for them. But sometimes I think difficult children are automatically labeled ADHD and the solution is drugs without trying to find the cause. I reminded of this Ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...
- adastra22 4y ago
  For people with ADHD though, the drugs are the cure. Stimulants are a miracle drug for those lacking executive function.
- Melatonic 4y ago
  In my experience it was the opposite - there were almost no kids labeled ADHD. Where did you live that everyone was labelled ADHD? Most people blamed the behaviour of difficult children on their difficult parents. That being said there are a lot of people who are purposely seeking ADHD meds who know they are not ADHD just to get drugs. Those people are kind of ruining it for everyone else. They are usually pretty easy to spot though

philliphaydon 4y ago

Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it doesn’t exist or the meds are pointless. Absolutely there are people with ADHD and meds work for them. But sometimes I think difficult children are automatically labeled ADHD and the solution is drugs without trying to find the cause. I reminded of this Ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...

adastra22 4y ago
For people with ADHD though, the drugs are the cure. Stimulants are a miracle drug for those lacking executive function.
Melatonic 4y ago
In my experience it was the opposite - there were almost no kids labeled ADHD. Where did you live that everyone was labelled ADHD? Most people blamed the behaviour of difficult children on their difficult parents. That being said there are a lot of people who are purposely seeking ADHD meds who know they are not ADHD just to get drugs. Those people are kind of ruining it for everyone else. They are usually pretty easy to spot though