ADHD digital test approved for NHS use in England and Wales | Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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1. Oh boy, another way to over diagnose ADHD.

   We’re gonna end up with an entire generation on tranquillisers.

2. All for people getting diagnosed but my social media is full of adults self diagnosing at this point and blaming everything that has gone throng in their life on having ADHD.

   The constant posts about it and how it effects day to day life, one particular persons personality has changed and she now acts like she is unable to do anything, and this is a person I have known for 25 years and only had a problem since she diagnosed herself.

   Always wondered if for some, being able to self label themselves with an issue meant they can stop taking responsibility for the bad life choices they made.

   Obviously it is good for people to get an official diagnosis but listening to some ass on Instagram trying to pass videos as factual ways to diagnose people is awful.

3. I hate how every time a thread about ADHD (and others) comedy up, all of the armchair psychiatrists, who’s research extends as far as some news headlines and maybe a documentary, pop out to remind us all that they think it’s over-diagnosed or not real or shouldn’t be treated or that “everybody has that a little bit”

4. A test is not a diagnostic tool. There isn’t a test to diagnose any mental health condition. It simply takes typically recognised patterns and commonalities from people who have been truly diagnosed by psychiatrists and asks the person ‘how much of this sounds like you’

   This isn’t a quick and easy way for self-diagnosis Sally to get amphetamines within 48 hours or less. It’s just a way to sort some of the wheat from the chaff and cut waiting times which currently stand at YEARS… largely due to social media self diagnosis trends, nootropics and just general drug seekers.

   Glasses used to be geeky then they were cool. Kids used to get ostracised for mental health conditions and now everyone wants their ‘magic meds’

5. ADHD isn’t over diagnosed, it’s been under diagnosed and now there’s a huge backlog because awareness is spreading. I have no doubt there will likely be a chunk who don’t have it, but so many have been struggling for years and just feeling like a complete alien without knowing why.

   I’ve suspected ADHD long before it became ‘fashionable’ and always been gaslit into thinking it was just my personality/just weird and I’m not THAT ADHD. Because I’m a (then girl) woman who wasn’t as over the top as the ADHD boys.

   It’s very much a real thing and brain scans show very visible differences in how typical vs. ADHD brains are. It’s not a simple “deal with it” scenario.

6. Can it work on adults? It just mentions kids and young people. Getting a diagnosis just seems like so much work.

7. So many people just google the symptoms for ADHD, present at a clinic (usually private) and walk out with a prescription for amphetamines.