• Jo Miran
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    1 year ago

    I very much understand hyperfixation and then moving on but that’s not the example given. Buying a new toy, playing with it for two weeks then moving on is basic human behavior, not hyperfixation. Buying a blender then becoming so obsessed with it that you become fixated with it to the point where you think about it constantly, read, research and basically know more about it than could possibly be necessary then poof…gone, is hyperfixation.

    Over diagnosing can lead to over correction. This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.

    I am not minimizing the disruptive effects of ADHD, obviously. I am suggesting that EVERYONE take posts like this with a big grain of salt

    • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Tons of intense, short-lived hobbies is one of the biggest hallmarks of ADHD.

      This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.

      Over-prevalence of this notion does a lot more harm to me than people wrongly identifying with the OP.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        And that’s really more the responsibility of the doctor than the meme viewer anyway.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      ADHD is underdiagnosed, not over diagnosed. That’s is a really bad myth originating from parents who refuse to believe that their kids are different.

      It’s far from that easy to get meds and a diagnosis, you know. You need to take an evaluation that lasts at least 3 hours in total. You are effectively saying that doctors don’t know what they’re doing, and that you know more than the literal experts.

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      Just also be aware that leading experts in ADHD believe it is significantly under diagnosed, so we should be careful to thread this needle. On one hand, everything you said, but on the other is people who do need help not seeking it because they feel like their just a PoS trying to blame their failings on some disorder they don’t actually have.

      I was part of the latter, finally getting diagnosed at 27, which is probably about 10 years later than it needed to be due to stigma of “over diagnosis” of adhd and “over medication”.