Does ADHD even exist?

[Mindful]

Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.

In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — despite an in-person, and far longer, assessment by an NHS psychiatrist concluding that he didn’t have the condition.

The clinics, while charging rather plump fees, seemed to have an extremely relaxed attitude towards diagnosing this increasingly common complaint.

It is a huge issue. ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

The clinics, one of them working on behalf of the overloaded NHS, were also willing to prescribe powerful stimulant drugs on the basis of this.

PETER HITCHENS: It will get me in trouble but...does ADHD even exist?

PETER HITCHENS: Does ADHD in fact exist? ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Mindful]

^ Private clinics are wrongly diagnosing patients with ADHD and offering powerful drugs 'following unreliable video call assessments', undercover investigation reveals.​

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.

In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — despite an in-person, and far longer, assessment by an NHS psychiatrist concluding that he didn’t have the condition.

The clinics, while charging rather plump fees, seemed to have an extremely relaxed attitude towards diagnosing this increasingly common complaint.

It is a huge issue. ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

The clinics, one of them working on behalf of the overloaded NHS, were also willing to prescribe powerful stimulant drugs on the basis of this.

PETER HITCHENS: It will get me in trouble but...does ADHD even exist?

PETER HITCHENS: Does ADHD in fact exist? ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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The person who coined the term confessed on his deathbed that the whole thing was a sham.

Made up to sell very dangerous drugs and create the kind of madness we see in young people today.

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[Dekster]

Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.

In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — despite an in-person, and far longer, assessment by an NHS psychiatrist concluding that he didn’t have the condition.

The clinics, while charging rather plump fees, seemed to have an extremely relaxed attitude towards diagnosing this increasingly common complaint.

It is a huge issue. ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

The clinics, one of them working on behalf of the overloaded NHS, were also willing to prescribe powerful stimulant drugs on the basis of this.

PETER HITCHENS: It will get me in trouble but...does ADHD even exist?

PETER HITCHENS: Does ADHD in fact exist? ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sure it exists in children for certain. I think it is just overly diagnosed and some people just like the drugs because it helps them focus. One of my brothers was ADHD a F as a child but grew out of it as he aged.

 

[BULLDOG]

Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.

In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — despite an in-person, and far longer, assessment by an NHS psychiatrist concluding that he didn’t have the condition.

The clinics, while charging rather plump fees, seemed to have an extremely relaxed attitude towards diagnosing this increasingly common complaint.

It is a huge issue. ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

The clinics, one of them working on behalf of the overloaded NHS, were also willing to prescribe powerful stimulant drugs on the basis of this.

PETER HITCHENS: It will get me in trouble but...does ADHD even exist?

PETER HITCHENS: Does ADHD in fact exist? ADHD was once mainly confined to children but is now spreading rapidly into the adult populations of the Western world.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Sorry. Could you repeat that? I got distracted while trying to learn to juggle, and missed what you said. My ADHD is acting up.

 

[Mindful]

Sorry. Could you repeat that? I got distracted while trying to learn to juggle, and missed what you said. My ADHD is acting up.

Just pay attention, or get a slap round the head.

 

[1srelluc]

Did anyone over 60 ever hear of peanut allergies and lactose intolerance when they were kids?

Every kid I knew you would have to pry their Shenandoah's Pride whole chocolate milk carton out of their cold dead hands.

 

[Road Runner]

As somebody who just found out that I was missed as a diagnosis when I was a child, it most certainly exists.