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Anonymous Tue 25 May 11:38:41 2021 No.13186008 View Reply Original Report

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is adhd a real thing? i fall into most of the symptoms for adhd and yet i still don't get why the disorder is considered a condition when pretty much all of the symptoms can manifest in people solely due to temperamental variation. also i don't trust doctors and it seems entirely plausible that adhd is made up by big pharma in order to get people addicted to amphetamines like Ritalin. i dont think its ridiculous to argue that technology use has contributed to shortened attention spans and this new wave of 'adhd' is actually just a kind of digital dementia. what are your thoughts? is adhd an actual thing?

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 12:15:57 No.13186097 Report

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 12:28:24 No.13186134 Report

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Officially diagnosed with ADHD in kindergarten. KINDERGARDEN. Was medicated with something like 30mg or so of Concerta. It made me into a zombie. I was a D student until the 9th grade then I started to hide/spit out the pills. I became a straight A student. My mother still doesn't believe it was all me and takes credit for my success after chemically babysitting me my whole life. My young brother, 14, is currently on SSRIs. Will try to redpill him soon when the time is right.

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 14:44:49 No.13186495 Report

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It's probably about 50% shitty parenting 50% actual issues. I didn't get diagnosed until I was 22, but I knew something was wrong since 5th grade.
I couldn't read more than a paragraph without my mind drifting off on a tangent for 5+ minutes. Meanwhile my body would still be "reading" the book and flipping pages. By the time my attention snapped back to the book I had no idea what was going on so I had to go back. The cycle repeated from there. No this wasn't just because the books were boring. This happened with every single book no matter what. Once I started medication I was finally able to read and it was a breath of fresh air. I never experienced any "dead inside" feelings, but I was also never really outwardly hyperactive either.

It is certainly over-diagnosed, but it is a very real thing

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 14:51:26 No.13186523 Report

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The entire field of behavioural psychology, and too a large degree psychology, are arbitrary labels based on zero research.

They make a claim, run with it, then look for evidence to back it up. If they find none, they keep running with it.

Treat it as flimsily as its been constructed.

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 15:18:33 No.13186612 Report

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What i've understood, it's generally thought of as working memory dysfunction of varying severity that always has something to do with dopamine or it's receptors and their dysfunctionality in one's brain, either due to insufficient release or poor take back etc, that can be a hereditary condition, and from which all the other symptoms are mostly derived, and can be measured in a test, which might then give you normal-ish, or in some cases, higher than normal results in cognitive tests, with the exception of working memory, where the results will either be low end of the spectrum, or on the level of mentally retarded. It gets vague if diagnosis is being done during childhood, but if the symptoms persist till later life, and they are prevalent in other family members as well, it could be that you've been blessed with some shitty genes.

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 15:46:57 No.13186757 Report

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it's a distinct thing at the least and it's woefully misunderstood. take me, a kid who got suspended 50+ times but most people around me blamed my parenting, my lack of exercise despite playing sports year round or something like me playing games growing up. pretty conservative area so adults thought adhd was a meme to get kids hooked on speed etc.
fast forward to 24 years old, 3 tries at college, never been employed longer than 6 months and a few broken relationships. i'm looking for answers, i'm microdosing shrooms, exercising 2 hours a day. everything i need to get what i need done but im still having issues with reading, i got an A in ochem but i flunked out of a literature class. i try addy during some finals week and i took a nap during it and i called my dealer like "wtf did you sell me" cause it's supposed to be SPEED. he promised me it was legit and that was an ADHD thing that happened. that was really when the light bulb went off and i read up on it, how it's mistaken as a focus problem but it's an EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING DISORDER and it took 6 months with a few missed appointments but i finally got diagnosed and on vyvanse. i now have 2 bachelor's and a master's degree.

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Anonymous Tue 25 May 2021 15:51:32 No.13186774 Report

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>amphetamines like Ritalin
Amphetamine and methylphenidate (Ritalin) are two different substances you moron.

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