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You can get good grades and still constantly get called lazy, be berated for not applying yourself more. Constantly wondering why no matter how hard you try to still somehow don’t do any better than if you make no effort at all but whatever you still get good grades. Who cares if you leave all your assignments for the last minute and then finish them all in a panic the night before they’re due. Or if you just crutch on way too many energy drinks because they’re effectively the same thing as medication only way worse for you health wise because you have no concept of the fact that the reason you like them so much is they make your symptoms more manageable.

I don't see how any of that relates. I mean, I see you're trying to argue that as the basis for a diagnosis of an attention deficit disorder, but what you've written is completely normal.

Seems like you're basing your reasoning on "well this speed I take actually helps me focus". Yeah? And the alcohol people drink make them drunk? That's what stimulants do they give you energy to help you focus.

Nowadays literally anything will net you a diagnosis for stimulants. It's crazy how easy it is for anyone of any age to get ADHD/ADD meds ie. Doctors pushed it on me as well, for years. Not when I was kid, because then this overprescription craziness wasn't a thing yet. But after 25 or so, constantly. I figured out my health myself. Did get tested several times by clinical psychologists, and it's crazy how generalised the questions are. I genuinely couldn't imagine anyone who couldn't at one time or another apply everything they said to themselves.

I also while at a place in which they suggested, read a brochure which was highly trying to convince that actually kids who use adhd meds are less likely to have problems with other substances in the future. I had plenty of time while waiting for my appointment, so I googled the source for the "facts" on that brochure. Turns out it relied on a study done on a hundred or so mice. I then googled the opposing view and researched whether it does make it more likely kids will have problems with other substances and found a study which was a following of tens of thousands of kids and showed a clear correlation, where yes, teenagers using methylphenidate and other adhd and add meds were more likely to have reported substance abuse issues later.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/adhd-overdiagnosed-and-overmedicated-say-dissenting-doctors-20231018-p5ed50.html

Like genuinely, call me out on this in 10 or 20 years. We'll see where it's developed. It's not like the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world have ever done anything illegal or harmful or purposefully pushed illegal drugs even to an extent to create a horrific drug epidemic.... riiiight?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9339402/

Now I understand that adhd meds are far safer than opiates, so it's not that I'm griping about anyone using them if they feel they get help from them. But let's not pretend that there isn't very clear controversy on this issue.

Sure, as medicine develops, diagnosis of not so well known diseases increase. But if you look at the rate of increase of neurodevelopmental orders in general versus the rate of increase of ADHD/ADD diagnosis', it's really hard to explain how the one condition which is treatable by a pleasantly mild pharmaceutical (which imo is far better than caffeine as per physical effects, so I understand preferring it over energy drinks) and which just happens to be very popular recreationally over the world as well.

Or would you disagree?