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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by rtpg on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:52AM (#19897279)
ADHD is the realest mental disorder out there. It has well defined medical symptoms, diagnosis criteria, and clinical treatment is more effective than with depression.

Saying “oh mayyyybe ADHD isn’t real” makes no sense unless you believe all mental disorders are fake.

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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by Kiro on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:11AM (#19899388)
Source? Claiming it's the realest mental disorder is a bold claim.
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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by beenBoutIT on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @01:39PM (#19911716)
According to Stanford's sleep clinic something like 25% of people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD actually have narcolepsy. A real disease has an objective test of some kind while an ADD/ADHD diagnosis is entirely subjective.
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Re:How I Run a Company with ADHD by rtpg on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @06:46AM (#19918102)
(Initially wrote a much angrier reply cuz I was so pissed off)

Even with physical diseases there are often misdiagnoses and genera oversights.

There’s definitely a social aspect to certain kinds of misdiagnoses, but medicine is not obvious in some contexts. The human body is pretty complex!

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