What is the Problem With Medically Defined ADHD Symptoms?

ByShaun Snapp

Executive Summary

  • The medical definition of ADHD has an unreliable origin, based on university professors corrupted by pharmaceutical money.

Introduction

The modern ADHD symptoms pharmaceutical industry influences the development of ADHD symptoms guidelines. This article covers the problems with this.

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The CDC on the Growth in the Diagnosis of ADHD

This is from the CDC.

The estimated number of children aged 3–17 years ever diagnosed with ADHD, according to a national survey of parents,1 is 6 million (9.8%) using data from 2016-2019. This number includes
3–5 years: 265,000 (2%)
6–11 years 2.4 million (10%)
12–17 years: 3.3 million (13%).
Boys (13%) are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls (6%).1
Black, non-Hispanic children and White, non-Hispanic children are more often diagnosed with ADHD (12% and 10%, respectively), than Hispanic children (8%) or Asian, non-Hispanic children (3%).

Observe the growth in the diagnosis of ADHD.

Where is the Discussion of the Growth in ADHD Diagnoses?

I checked the top ten search results for ADHD and found no single article explaining how ADHD diagnoses had grown over the past few decades. There is some discussion of how ADHD grew, but this is generally attributed to better diagnoses rather than foul play in developing the standards of diagnosis.

Observing the Off Label Usage of Antidepressants for ADHD

The book Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis discusses antidepressants and ADHD.

Important Point #1: How and Why ADHD Symptoms Diagnosis Exploded

For example, if a child has too much energy and talks too fast, a psychiatrist is more likely to call him hyper and impulsive and to diagnose ADHD.

Biederman and his team changed this by offering a new definition of mania that they felt was better suited for children. Their new defining mood for manic kids was irritability, even in the absence of euphoria or grandiosity. This irritability when beyond whining or tantrums.

This naturally massively increased the number of children who were diagnosed with ADHD. However, it is a significant problem that Dr. Biederman had major conflicts of interest and financial connections to the pharmaceutical industry, which is addressed in the following quotation.