Is nobody watching the Great ADHD Myth?

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I was expecting to see lots of chatter about this. 1/2hr in - interesting!

It says there is no evidence that ADHD is an illness or a neuro developmental disorder,

Yes it did that. It presented a series of eminent people, only one who had any personal expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of the condition.

And she has made a complaint that he contribution was "cherrypicked, largely misrepresented, truncated and presented ..... out of context to make them fit into their narrative"

. It really didn't sound like the Dr Max guy met these criteria from what he himself said - he said he didn't think he even had ADHD and I can't believe you'd believe that about yourself if you had symptoms consistent with ADHD that were having a significant impact on multiple areas of your life.

We saw a few seconds and heard him answer two questions. If he answered the rest of what for me was 2 hours of interrogation the same way, then I've no doubt he has ADHD. I laughed out loud as he was saying he didn't have it and the camera pulled back to show him doing the one thing that everyone I know with ADHD does when forced to sit in one place - tap tap tap tap tap with his foot on the rung of the stool, usually sat about 120 beats a minute. I don't think he even knew that he was doing it. The rate he was talking and the flinging his hands around as he talked was another tell.

Max is a person who clearly has a visceral aversion to being given "a label". Many people are the same. People ask with total puzzlement why others seek "a label" when they don't want medication or need benefits.

Max also has a lifestyle as a self employed psychiatrist and journalist where he can bend his lifestyle to fit himself, and therefore is not currently disabled by his condition. It isn't a disability to him to be wide awake at 2.30 in the morning, he simply works. That he isn't disabled by it doesn't mean that he hasn't got it, just that he wouldn't qualify for any disability benefits.

The doctor who prescribed highly controlled substances to a man who insists that he does not have the disease and declares that he has no difficulties caused by the disease was pretty unethical, imo.

@LiveLuvLaughyes she was seeing a Camhs (think that’s how you spell it?) specialist. But her adhd was too severe, she was being sick when she was having a panic attack so wasn’t eating properly. So it was fairly urgent in her case to get medicated as soon as possible. We haven’t looked back since, she can also go weekends without medication which is ok, but that’s as long as she can go.

It’s never changed her personality, it’s only enhanced it. I think when a child has severe adhd the medication doesn’t tend to dull you, it just brings the brain back to a more manageable slower pace. And the difference is the little boy in the programme didn’t want to take the medication, but my daugher does.