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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-05-03 23:05, William Flynn
Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms,
sans-serif">Anders, what's the situation in the UK?
Increasing diagnosis and treatment of ADHD? Many think it's
just a fad and only the extreme need diagnosis and treatment.</font>
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Overdiagnosed and overmedicated, *and* underdiagnosed and
undermedicated. There is a lot of inhomogenity in who gets the
diagnosis, partially mediated by (parental) social capital. <br>
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Many of these traits are on a spectrum: we are all a bit paranoid, a
bit scattered, a bit narcissitic, a bit unable to figure out others,
and so on. So we can often recognize something of ourselves in
people with a diagnosis, but the key thing is (1) do these things
impair us enough that we need to change, and (2) would a medical
gatekeeper recognize this as a proper, intervention requiring
diagnosis? <br>
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In practice, people are fond of ascribing creativity to all sorts of
mental conditions. The actual research data is much more equivocal.
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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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