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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like this are why I won’t tell people I have ADHD. Congrats on your shaming ignorance. You all suck. [/quote]

You should be mad at the people claiming to have ADHD who don’t. [/quote]
I don’t know any of those people and you probably don’t either. Nobody wants, it jackass. It sucks.[/quote]

I know several people who have self-diagnosed their ADHD. It's a known phenomenon: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20250325/TikTok-fuels-ADHD-self-diagnosis-with-misleading-content-study-shows.aspx#:~:text=TikTok%20fuels%20ADHD%20self%2Ddiagnosis%20with%20misleading%20content%2C%20study%20shows,-Download%20PDF%20Copy&text=A%20new%20study%20reveals%20that,flags%20among%20mental%20health%20experts.&text=A%20recent%20PLOS%20ONE%20study,health%20professionals%20and%20young%20adults.

There has also been a proliferation of online Telehealth websites that not only offer ADHD diagnosis online but focus on it. Groups like ADHDAdvisor and Cerebral specialize in providing diagnosis, and importantly prescriptions, for ADHD to adults. None of these services perform differential diagnosis (where they actually look to see if there might be another cause for your symptoms) or full workups. You will have one or two Telehealth appointments, often with a nurse practitioner who may have minimal experience rather than a physician, and then you get your scrip.

One of the major reasons ADHD meds have been in short supply in recent years is because of the explosion of adult ADHD diagnoses via these orgs, which I would describe as prescription mills but but which I've heard actual doctors refer to as drug dealers.

A lot of people "want" ADHD these days. Not really, like not actual ADHD which is debilitating, but the label of ADHD which they can treat as a get-out-of-jail-free card for a broad range of behaviors, and which will get them access to stimulant medication they will then use selectively and potentially irresponsibly for a problem they don't actually even have.[/quote]

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