Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It

Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by garmaine on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:36AM (#17224945)

Or are we just getting better about diagnosing diseases that were there already but untreated?

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by Cthulhu_ on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:51AM (#17226155)

^ is also a factor; kids get diagnosed with ADHD and autism (and helped) instead of just being labeled a difficult child.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by garmaine on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:01AM (#17226216)

As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receiving treatment and thankful for it, and my kids will be screened.

That's not to say the rate of mental illness is going up or down or staying the same. But measuring the per capita diagnosis rate won't tell you anything about that.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by spiralx on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:31AM (#17226763)

> As someone with an Adult ADHD diagnosis, this has definitely been my experience. Adults weren't even being diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child and it was never brought up when I showed the signs in school. Now I'm receiving treatment and thankful for it, and my kids will be screened.

Same here in all respects.

> But measuring the per capita diagnosis rate won't tell you anything about that.

I believe that some of the increase in diagnosis rates is because of increasing diagnosis in historically under-diagnosed groups, especially in the US where access to healthcare hasn't been available to everyone.

https://www.additudemag.com/race-and-adhd-how-people-of-colo...

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by SketchySeaBeast on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:56AM (#17227823)

Absolutely. A generation or two ago you didn't have depression, you were just a mean drunk.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by linkmotif on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:48AM (#17224992)

> and not just because of an awakening to diagnosis

You can control for rising diagnosis all day, but find me anorexic people 100 years ago. They basically didn’t exist.

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Re:Why Children Aren't Behaving and What We Can Do About It by watwut on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:54AM (#17225230)

1.) Anorexic people 1918 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2051151

2.) Afaik, anorexiction rates are going down. It is less of problem then it used to be in previous generation.

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