>Agreed, I do think there is something wrong I am just not convinced it is ADHD and my worry is now he has his diagnosis and some pills it won't help him in get

>Agreed, I do think there is something wrong I am just not convinced it is ADHD and my worry is now he has his diagnosis and some pills it won't help him in getting him the help he actually needs which I believe is more related to trauma from an animal attack combined with the pandemic. I think the problem that most people in life that suffer from some sort of mental problem – be it depression, ADHD, Autism, axiety or any number of other issues – encounter throughout their entire life are hundreds of well meaning and otherwise people all with their own personal opinions about what's wrong with them. At best these people are doing nothing but adding noise, but at worst they're contributing to a life of hurt and unhappiness with being unable to be "normal". When these people find something that resonates with what's going on, they will latch onto that thing, whether or not it's the right thing. But for those people (and frankly for their well being) if it's wrong, that's often still better than having nothing at all. The curse of having a mental disorder is that until you're diagnosed, no one believes anything is wrong with you they just think you're an asshole. After you're diagnosed, EVERYTHING in your life gets filtered through that disorder. But the important thing is people no longer think you're an asshole, which means they're more open to looking at something else. Your friend has a much better chance of getting the help they need by someone looking at their diagnosis and going "hey, I can see where the docs got this, but these other things don't quite fit and maybe you've been mis-diagnosed or have some other thing" than they probably ever did before the diagnosis. So sometimes even the wrong diagnosis is helpful. But you need to keep in mind that you're almost certainly not the only other person telling them the diagnosis must be wrong. And at a certain point when you know something is wrong with you and everyone keeps shooting down things around you, you become resistant to listening to ANYONE who wants to shoot you down, no matter how right. If you're worried about your friend, your best bet is to encourage them to keep digging, keep learning and keep checking rather than trying to encourage them to stop thinking they have ADHD. Because in the end, continued evaluation will either confirm the diagnosis or get them on a path to finding a better answer. Where as fighting them on it will just encourage tuning you out and digging in.