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I'm sorry, but this sounds like telling someone with clinical depression to just cheer up. There's a real chemical difference between regular-lack-of-focus and
by joshklein 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this sounds like telling someone with clinical depression to just cheer up. There's a real chemical difference between regular-lack-of-focus and ADD. It's not the fault of real sufferers that faux sufferers cloud the diagnosis.
Regarding focusing attention on a distraction; that is an executive dysfunction disorder, not an attention deficit disorder. One can have both, and adderall would not address the former at all.
- ramblerman 15y agoI wonder what people did before we had all the fancy names though. I certainly feel for people who have real chemical imbalances that lead to a different perception of the world. But psychology is not a science. It's extremely subjective.
- mistercow 15y ago>I wonder what people did before we had all the fancy names though. They suffered, just like people with schizophrenia did back when we believed in visions and demonic possession. >But psychology is not a science. It's extremely subjective. This is about psychiatry, not psychology. Psychiatry is absolutely a science. (And so is psychology, albeit a tricky one.)