Maggiore consapevolezza dietro l’ondata di ADHD, suggerisce lo studio
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vp62dnnro
di Alert-One-Two
Maggiore consapevolezza dietro l’ondata di ADHD, suggerisce lo studio
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5vp62dnnro
di Alert-One-Two
14 commenti
I’ve always had adhd, the difference is I only got it diagnosed recently at 53 years old. I’m the generation that first was brought up with all kinds of shit in our foods. A huge contributing factor imho
More diagnoses doesn’t mean it wasn’t always there to begin with. Says it in the article.
It’s just annoying that people use it as another victim trophy. I have it and still manage to work a normal job. People just need to push through and get on with it
Absolutely nothing to do with Tiktok. Not at all. Nope.
I think that part of the issue is also that the world is so much faster and has so many more distractions than 20 or 30 years ago that it makes it much more difficult for people with ADHD to navigate so it is more disabling.
We need to be aware of the causes. Modern life anyone? So a cure for ADHD might be a less frenetic culture.
I don’t want an ADHD diagnosis.
But after COVID and I lost my ‘work routine’ I definitely struggled a lot, got some burnout, and I’ve found a lot of peace and help from ADHD support content.
Some people say covid itself causes brain fog that triggers ADHD like symptoms.
Others say ‘you always had it, you just were high functioning’ because of things like routines / office environments / external accountability.
I don’t know, I think a less medicalised approach would be useful for people like me. For people who can’t function at all, let them have an ADHD diagnosis and the trappings that come with that. For people who are, lets say, context-dependant functional, lets have a model more akin to ‘health and safety’ – everyone needs a safe place to work, but also, everyone also benefits from the right environment to produce their best work.
It doesn’t need to be weird or taboo – it could be addressed as performance coaching. One person benefits from structure, another from freedom.
I worry if everyone who is not supported by the workplace to produce their best work, instantly goes to an ADHD diagnosis. It feels like overmedicalising.
Honestly as someone whos had adhd my entire life i didn’t ask for it, and Honestly its felt like people have been less open to people like me ever since covid
The global average percentage of ADHD is estimated to be at around **5%** of all people ([source](https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/background-information/prevalence/)).
Here in the UK, the diagnosis rate stands at less than **1%** of the UK population ([source](https://adhduk.co.uk/adhd-diagnosis-rate-uk/)).
Considering that there is decades of research that showcase that ADHD is primarily a genetic condition ([source](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-018-0070-0)), it stands to reason that it’s not “being in the UK” that is the cause for the differential, and we’ve both spent decades underdiagnosing people and missing the symptoms.
Ergo, why we have a lot more people getting diagnosed across the age brackets, the health service is playing catch-up and starting to “rebalance the scales” in terms of diangosing those who should get an explainer and help people get appropriate treatment if its a pathway they need/wish to go down.
There’s also (and don’t jump on me for this) evidence that women & girls with autism and ADHD have long gone under the radar as we present slightly differently.
If there’s now more understanding of the different ways it can present – then more women and girls will ID with that – more diagnoses.
Personally I don’t understand the furore around the “jump” in diagnosis. Getting mine and getting properly medicated has meant I’m a better employee, family member, friend. Before I was in a binge drinking/eating cycle with severe mental health issues. I still struggle but I can cope.
It’s not been an excuse for me it’s been a bloody revelation
I’m currently 2 years in to a 2 year waiting list. Approximately 15 months to go…
As someone married to someone with this condition – most of you do not put in any effort to manage it and you make the lives of everyone around you actively worse.
My friends and therapist all say I show symptoms. Easily distracted bad short term memory trouble focusing etc. just can’t get an appointment
Having a phone that does everything provides an easy distraction for people where before they might’ve focussed better.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that is part of it. The world is louder these days.
But awareness has also been a reason for Autism cases seemingly being more common. Not due to any specific single cause. Just awareness and screening.
Improvements in LGBT rights and societal attitudes (despite a few resurgent issues lately) is also why more people feel free to identify as LGBT. Not because they’re any more or less common than they were before. Just because people don’t feel as shamed or feel the need to hide it as they did.