ADHD Symptoms You Won’t Find in the DSM
ADHD is in the DSM-5, an essential resource used by clinicians to diagnose and treat ADHD, but experts and ADDitude readers say symptoms are missing, making it increasingly incomplete and even inaccurate.
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I’d actually like to see it re-evaluated under different conditions to confirm if humans have one brain for “slow, predictable times” and another one wired for “chaotic, high data processing times”. Something like developing a set of tests that can be run in two different situations by two different groups – neural normal (for lack of a better term) and those with adhd; in a slow, predictable env. (Eg. Current school system) and a fast-paced chaotic env where there’s a huge amount of changing data to be filtered through quickly.
It wouldn’t be the first time that someone who was seeking to make their name in an established field felt the need to have their approach be “the right one” and have everything else compared to it and to fail. We saw this extensively in medicine with women, for example.