Does the belief that ADHD does or does not exist pay rent? Psychiatric diagnoses are the map; patterns of thought are territory. Society has certain rules that can make it expedient or inexpedient to call a particular similarity cluster a “disease” or “medical condition”, but what really matters is whether a given intervention (medication, psychotherapy, etc.) is or isn’t beneficial.
Does the belief that ADHD does or does not exist pay rent?
A little bit, in as much people who say “ADHD does not exist” are reliably more ignorant on the subject than people who say “ADHD does exist”. It’s far from the ideal way to carve reality but it isn’t completely useless.
Does the belief that ADHD does or does not exist pay rent? Psychiatric diagnoses are the map; patterns of thought are territory. Society has certain rules that can make it expedient or inexpedient to call a particular similarity cluster a “disease” or “medical condition”, but what really matters is whether a given intervention (medication, psychotherapy, etc.) is or isn’t beneficial.
A little bit, in as much people who say “ADHD does not exist” are reliably more ignorant on the subject than people who say “ADHD does exist”. It’s far from the ideal way to carve reality but it isn’t completely useless.