ADHD isn't a real disease

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There are some people you meet who are *clearly* wired different-- probably genetically. They have a true brain deficit. (I miss the old label, Minimal Brain Dysfunction.) They can take a lot of energy to put up with.

It's just massively overdiagnosed, though, and the label is applied to people who are capable but lazy (or just seeking stimulants). Who have no real organic brain dysfunction.
 
Like most mental illnesses it's probably over diagnosed due to the diagnosis process being retardedly easy for people to game, but I feel some people go in the opposite direction of thinking brains are magic and can't go wrong. If people can be born with a fucked up heart or liver, why couldn't they necessarily be born with a fucked up brain?

I guess it's difficult to differentiate between actual brain problems and just poor upbringing though due to how complex the mind is, but I don't find it that out there that something like ADHD could exist and have an genuine physical cause.
 
There's no need to try to focus; I have ADHD, I'm just this way, nothing I can do.
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No, it's not learned helplessness or indolence. It make you feel like you're retarded when you know you're not.

Trying to focus with ADHD without stimulants is like trying to see without glasses when your eyesight is fucked. You're not just gonna get over it through willpower.

Once you have your stimmies, things start to make sense, you can pay attention, and the tard wranglers will finally stop bothering you. You get your confidence back, and realize you don't have Down Syndrome.
 
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That's right, I've said it before and I'll say it again:
There's no ADHD, you're just lazy.
There's no depression, you're just a sad sack of shit.
There's no anxiety disorder, you're just a pussy.
There's no BPD, NPD, AsPD, you're just an asshole.
There's no Asperger's, you're just retarded.
JK
 
Dandelion Eyes said:
That's right, I've said it before and I'll say it again:
There's no ADHD, you're just lazy.
There's no depression, you're just a sad sack of shit.
There's no anxiety disorder, you're just a pussy.
There's no BPD, NPD, AsPD, you're just an asshole.
There's no Asperger's, you're just retarded.
JK
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BPD unironically probably is just people being spoiled dickheads 2bh, there's a reason it's 90% women who have it.
 
I enjoy the anecdotes about how life was just so much harder and everything "just made sense and clicked" after people get their amphetamine prescriptions. Yeah, no shit.

If you have "ADHD" in highschool or college and use drugs to boost yourself, you should have a big asterix next to your degree.
 
Behavioral Sink said:
There are some people you meet who are *clearly* wired different-- probably genetically. They have a true brain deficit. (I miss the old label, Minimal Brain Dysfunction.) They can take a lot of energy to put up with.

It's just massively overdiagnosed, though, and the label is applied to people who are capable but lazy (or just seeking stimulants). Who have no real organic brain dysfunction.
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If an american claims that they have ADHD, 99% of the time it's a munchie thing, sure. But for the rest of the world is an actual label and it means "not socially inept enough to be an asperger, not retarded enough to be an actual retard but still not ok" Giving almost-meth to kids it's fucked up though
 
Over diagnosed in kids, but under diagnosed in adults.

I'm glad for the people who don't believe it's real, because they have no idea the living hell Inattentive type ADHD (formerly ADD) makes your life. If you really, actually have it than it can ruin what otherwise should have been a normal life.

Anyway I'm not going to powerlevel too much, but it is a real thing and most importantly, if you don't have an actual professional diagnosis than you can't claim to have it.
 
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Dandelion Eyes said:
That's right, I've said it before and I'll say it again:
There's no ADHD, you're just lazy.
There's no depression, you're just a sad sack of shit.
There's no anxiety disorder, you're just a pussy.
There's no BPD, NPD, AsPD, you're just an asshole.
There's no Asperger's, you're just retarded.
JK
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I'm not a serial killer, I'm a highly motivated human extinction advocate.
 
Behavioral Sink said:
There are some people you meet who are *clearly* wired different-- probably genetically. They have a true brain deficit. (I miss the old label, Minimal Brain Dysfunction.) They can take a lot of energy to put up with.

It's just massively overdiagnosed, though, and the label is applied to people who are capable but lazy (or just seeking stimulants). Who have no real organic brain dysfunction.
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I've seen some ambulance chaser ad about lead tainted baby food recently, they call the effects "ADHD" and "autism" instead of lead poisoning. So I guess doctors have moved on to labelling all retardation/brain damage as ADHD or autism.
 
Well, it's "real" in the sense that people do experience the symptoms, so having a word for it and declaring it a disorder is appropriate.
What people disagree about is if it's innate, genetic, environnemental, and curable.

When you take into account that people that do dopamine fasts or are forced to do dopamine fasts like going to prison or the military end up quickly in a state of remission tells us that it can at least be dealt with behaviorally and does not necessitate medication. We don't know if those individuals actually cure their condition (as if, rewire and resensitize their dopamine circuits to lower the tolerance to stimuli) or if they learn to deal with it, but the results are there.

Adults taking amphetamines daily because they're too spergy to put down tiktok is one thing, but I have huge concerns about giving amphetamines to kids (mostly unruly young boys) because they don't listen and obey the teacher in class while sitting down like good little drones.

 
Having some experience in education I think it's a nexus of forcing kids of different maturity levels through the same program, reduced recess for young ones, and not demanding older kids to grow the fuck up. As it turns out teens can sit down and shut up for an hour without having to tickle a fidget toy if they actually practice focusing. These days we just cave into every retarded gripe kids have, pathologize and medicate.
 
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