Food for thought! Possible medical overdiagnosis is a serious issue! Similar to Autism Spectrum Disorder?
ADHD itself is an ambiguous, nebulous disorder!
The more individuals are diagnosed with ADHD, the better for business of doctors and pharma industry!
"The sharp increase in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses—nearly doubling among American children between 1997 and 2022, and more than tripling among adults from 2012 to 2023—has been chalked up to better screening, increased awareness, and the corrosive effects of smartphones and social media on developing brains. None of these factors holds up well under scrutiny.
The diagnostic category itself has been steadily widened by the institutions that define it and the financial structure that rewards every participant for applying the ADHD label. As we have argued in our Cato Institute analysis of how the American healthcare system rewards psychiatric overdiagnosis, subjective diagnostic criteria interact with a payment system that rewards diagnosis to produce predictable inflation across psychiatric categories. The result is labeling ordinary behavior as pathological. ADHD is among the cleanest case studies of that pattern. ...
The youngest children in any classroom are also more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than their older peers, a finding so robust across studies and countries that it points to ordinary developmental variation rather than disease. ..."
The Perfect Storm for ADHD Overdiagnosis "Screen time gets the blame, but the increase in diagnoses comes more from subjective criteria interacting with financial incentives."
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