Again, it's overdiagnosed. People who don't even have it gets diagnosed with it by overzealous psychiatrists. Learn to read.
overdiagnosis play
noun over·di·ag·no·sis \-ˌdī-ig-ˈnō-səs, -əg-\
Definition of overdiagnosis
: the diagnosis of a condition or disease more often than it is actually present
overdiagnose play \-ˈdī-ig-ˌnōs, -ˌnōz, -ˌdī-ig-ˈ, -əg-\ transitive verb
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And any psychiatrist or psychologist worth his/her salt will send a patient with a bad diagnosis to at least one other practitioner for a consult to make sure they don't miss-diagnose. Because doing that is bad. Sounds like you went to one not worth the salt that didn't send you.
When I first saw one he wanted to say chronically-depressed. But since that is a godawful horrible fucking diagnoses he sent me on to get another opinion. Who said that it was unlikely that bad, I was probably just had a depression, but had been it for far longer than most my age without any relief. Which it turns out was true.
It was a case of prepare for the worst while hoping for the best since the first one did say he doubted it but it could be the case.
Above is what any good practitioner will do on a bad diagnoses. Since they know how hard it is to pinpoint. However, often from what I hear on the state of US mental health it does sound like there are a lot of lazy practitioners who should have more rigorous diagnostic procedures. But that might also be that they want to be "nice" as in, they don't want to send patients to a second doctors appointment with a specialist that'd cost them even more and likely take a few weeks wait to get and might not be covered by insurance.
It's not "common". You're free to explain why kids who are born in the same year but later in the year are more frequently diagnosed than kids who are born early in the year. Could it be because they misinterpret immaturity in kids who are born in the same year but in the later months as opposed to earlier months, making them almost a year younger than the ones born in january as opposed to being born in december, as being ADHD? Nooooo, can't be. Overdiagnosis surely doesn't exist. It's just a made up thing, right?
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I live in Sweden, my tours with the psychiatry means that I think they have no clue what they're talking about. First it's schizophrenia, then it's schizotypal personality disorder, then it's autism, then it's autism-nos and then it's depression and then finally, in the end, after I had a check up at a physician - I had vitamin deficiencies that were easily fixed by taking supplements, which caused symptoms that psychiatrists diagnosed wrongly. Thanks to them I have sustained some long-lasting problems from vitamin b deficiency.
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Overdiagnoses exist since the whole medical industry is dependant on selling as much drugs as they can.
This is just as much why they prescribe any medicine for you to try out and see if it helps, even pre diagnosis.
Just look up Asthma medicine usage amongst athletes, if they had severe respitory conditions they never be athletes in the first place.
No. There is evidence for both alzheimer and PTSD, but not ADHD.
There are people with annoying personalities, doesn't mean they have a disease.
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They are for everyone. There is no study showing a clear difference between those diagnosed with ADHD a the rest of the population.
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No, psychiatrists say it's real. In neurology we don't.
Actually, you do.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/i.../adhd-is-real/
Written by Steven Novella, clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale.
I believe that over-diagnosing could be a thing, but it's not as prevalent as mis-diagnosing. Here in the US, from my experience they don't take the time to properly diagnose you unless you're at the hospital, and you don't get in the hospital unless you're at a serious threat to commit suicide or have seriously hurt yourself.
As far as ADHD goes, I don't know how in the world they diagnose it in children because most of them are pretty hyperactive, bundles of energy that can only sit still for so long. I think it exists though because i have met people diagnosed as a child who carry those tendencies into adulthood (over 25 yrs old). I know a 31 year old who can't read a book. He is unable to sit and hold attention to read anything more than a page. However he's still able to function in society quite well, and managed to get a college degree.
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Can't blame anyone who has a difficult time believing in certain mental illness like ADHD or depression. It's something you can't see through an X-Ray.
Please don't self diagnose, go see a doctor and get checked out.
Next week you will be vegan as well. Stop turning peoples real problems in to your fashion statements.