Posted by ron1953 on July 21, 2012, at 0:33:18
In reply to Experience with adult ADHD?, posted by Raisinb on July 20, 2012, at 17:52:51
1) The specific subject was ADULT ADD
2) The question was, what were YOUR experiences
3) The DSM criteria by which the diagnosis is made is where I see the problem. Yes, I scored several "points" and was diagnosed by some bozos, but I don't have it (at least not anything like the above description, nor anything debilitating). I suspect many get the diagnosis and treatment unnecessarily. And yes, if the DSM existed when I was a kid, I would have been given the diagnosis like so many have more recently, but I was just a bright kid bored out of my effin skull and not happy to be trapped in a schoolroom with unreasonable demands to sit still and shut up. I'm always happy for folks who get effective treatment. And I'm sad for the ones like me who get screwed by incompetent and over-zealous practitioners.
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