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A global surge in ADHD diagnosis has more to do with marketing than medicine

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Sorry, guys…I’ve been busy working and on a couple of other projects.  I’ll be back in person tomorrow, with luck.

In the meantime:

Many websites promoting ADHD drugs offer checklists with questions like these:

  • Do you fidget a lot?
  • Is it hard for you to concentrate?
  • Are you disorganized at work and home?
  • Do you start projects and then abandon them?

    “These checklists turn all kinds of different behaviors into medical problems,” Conrad says. “The checklists don’t distinguish what is part of the human condition and what is a disease.”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/bu-ags111814.php

Two Good Articles From THE FIX

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You Probably Have ADHD

“…Pharmaceutical companies have spent the past two decades engaging in aggressive and sneaky marketing that has included diagnosis- and drug-pushing doctors, playing on parents’ fears, and involving schools in the effort to attract, diagnose, and treat kids who suffer (or who appear to suffer) from ADHD. …”

http://www.thefix.com/content/you-probably-have-adhd

Sexual Healing?

Warning: Graphic Language

“…I wanted love and companionship and tenderness. Sex was a cheap second prize and the only thing available to somebody with an intimacy disorder like myself. I could have great sex with people I didn’t feel connected to but I couldn’t even have decent sex with people I cared about….”

http://www.thefix.com/content/sexual-healing

 

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