ADHD Symptoms & Treatments : Diagnosing Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
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When adults are diagnosed with ADD, they have oftentimes carried the same symptoms throughout their life, although other disorders should be ruled out first. Discover how adult ADD can be confused with anxiety with help from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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lieje71, depending on your meds.. if you read some of symptons it will say it may cause wieght loss, and appitite loss.
First off, as has already been arrived at, there is no disease, so, no diagnosis can be had. Secondly, even if one is to take a most liberal definition of disease to include all manner of socially deviant behaviour, as per respective institutional backdrop, a symptom is not synomous with sign, the latter being a signal (etymologically identical words) of pathophysiology. This is an important distinction, as the MH profession obfuscates by mixing and matching medical jargon. Mutual deception.
it’s a disorder amigo. it is not referred to as a disease by most people. I think you have some very strong statements! Perhaps you’d like to back them up with scientific evidence so that your statements have even a small bit of debatable value within the scientific community.
Yes, disorder. Most who are conversant within the lexicon of psychiatry know where this has taken present day culture. BTW, if one were to apply the Virchowian nosological model as a reference point, ANY pathophysiological lesion, alteration, or function, either at the cellular or tissue level, constitutes disease! However, given how socially and politically contigent psych disorders invariably are, the profession has resorted to no subtle legerdemain. The scientistic, reductive science. Proof?
In all honesty, I think that the MH profession needs to proffer its evidence-and not just speculative, threadworn postulations. However, given the institutional mission and requirements of our schools, it is no small wonder that Ritalin is the drug most prescribed to willful “disordered” children. This is not a scientific discussion, it is a moral one.
I would add that the scientistic claims as set forth in psychiatry, namely: that science has the answers to the problems of human interpersonal and intrapersonal conduct, and that the tools at the disposal of its priest-doctors (read: psychiatrists) has managed to replace spontaneous (human) processes with “conscious human control”. However, no one takes note that the chickens have come home to roost.
are you from the future? ease up on the vocabulary attack you sound blisteringly arrogant.
The only thing I find interesting about your comments are the sheer number of unnecessary words you use. I’ve been jumping around to different videos on ADD only to find you spewing personal, pseudo-intellectual OPINIONS all over the place. I’m not sure what you think you’re accomplishing by doing this, but if I had to guess, it seems you get off on trying to appear smarter than others. But all you’re doing is distracting people that are actually interested in learning about this. Please stop…
Please stop… And I am to assume that the use of ellipses is some intimation of what? A threat of some sort? Really, tell me, why should I stop, and, for that matter stop doing what? By the way, learning also is taking place when people are given the OPTION of reading opposing views, and not only the form of gospel, as proffered by the the variety of Mental Health professionals, pharmaceuticals in tow. So, as for stopping, I obviously have hit a nerve with someone. GOOD!
You’ve been bottom feeding for too long. The DSM is the best that our species can do? This shit manual is our modern age’s answer to what? Religion? The moral ordering of Man? It is business as usual with our species, that of exclusion. That is only scratching the surface to that branch of “medicine” that serves as moral stamp of modern times, much as the church of Midieval Europe. Now, we have the mentally disordered and drug addicts, and we no longer burn at the stake. We drug and lock up.
@whiff1962 get over yourself. You armchair intellectuals are a dime a dozen.
Getting over myself? Are you saying that those who embrace the label of AD(H)D, as if it were some article of faith, and an excuse for all manner of indolence and excuse, are not to get over themselves?
that should read “an excuse for indolence and lack of ambition”.
And I would agree, armchair intellectuals are plentiful, especially on YT. However, I believe my own experience with my being labeled ADHD as a child, and my eventually understanding the socialLy and politically strategic nature of labeling all manner of “deviant” behavior, is worth discussing, even if most YT members hold faith in this pseudo-scientific enterprise.
@whiff1962, I’m saying that those of you with an obvious Wikipedia education aren’t worth debating due to a severe lack of intellectual integrity. Cheers!
Well, I do hold several degrees, with an advanced degree in psychology. I, too, was once a faithful member of the church of mental hygiene, however, life has a way of bringing things into sharp relief, as does serious-minded inquiry.
As for your snipe that I lack intellectual integrity, it is most ironic that so many who hold to psych labels are no different than those who profess religious faith. Think about that a while, and get back to me.
If you actually held an advanced degree in psychology, then you would not be so fervently committed to 1. such an obtuse smear campaign, and 2. spamming sets of Youtube comments, mostly containing smug assertions completely devoid of reason and fact. For someone with an advanced degree in psychology, I would expect much more detailed and intellectually honest responses. As for your last comment, I am an atheist and I happen to have ADD.
Thanks for revealing to us your profound ignorance.
As the general public goes, ignorance is bliss, and the nature of propaganda as pertains to the notion of “mental illness” qua disease (read on the medical definition of disease), counts on the media and public credulity. The nexus of the argument is not one of truth versus falsehood, especially as it concerns the psychiatric enterprise, it is of power over the powerless. Psychiatry, in its present engenderment, rationalizes coercions and force through its pseudo-medical mystifications.
And what of the systematic campaign to enlarge the scope of influence over the individual, all in the name of greater social health? Left unchecked and unchallenged, psychiatry would see to it that EVERYONE is subject to its objectifications and scrutiny, and in no inconsequential manner, I might add. In 1970, there were some 200, 000 children on Ritalin. The figure today is some 13 + million, in the U.S. alone. Some cultural export, this ADD, huh?
And I would anticipate your response as being one being based on medico-scientific “progress” in the recognition of what? The need for greater measures of control over those deviant and troubling individuals? There is no disease being treated, and such a spurious notion is but a political maneuver to justify the continued course. Is the drugging of tens of millions of children the answer to our culture’s stubborn course of “treating” (mis)behavior in our classrooms, and other institutions?
Got anything besides unsubstantiated whiffle, Mr Whiff? Seems as though you could benefit from psychiatric treatment. Anyways, good luck with your plight to win Youtube!
How did you come about getting ADD? How was it “diagnosed”? What test was administered? I know, the DSM, the bible of the secular priesthood of mental health, was the means test. Your insurance was billed, you have an excuse to go on, safe and secure in your label, as shelter against the adversities of life.
Now, who is the more ignorant, with the foregoing argument? Self-determination & responsibility come at a price, not in a label and a pill. Psych labels have never freed anyone. They jail
may be the councelor has ADD
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