Re:TikTok trend that makes teens believe they have serious m...
by curtisblaine on Saturday January 01, 2022 @04:51PM
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> Besides the medications, an ADHD diagnosis can also get you special academic privileges such as extra time on exams.
Not only ADHD: dyslexia too, and probably other diseases / disorders related to the mental and neurological sphere.
This is problematic, because on one hand it's not hard to fake a disease if you know the symptoms and on the other hand it's quite easy to be convinced that you have a disease if you read the symptoms online. And I honestly don't know if doctors are able to discern "fake" illnesses from "real" ones when the diagnosis is essentially 100% derived from patients reporting their symptoms.
Not only ADHD: dyslexia too, and probably other diseases / disorders related to the mental and neurological sphere.
This is problematic, because on one hand it's not hard to fake a disease if you know the symptoms and on the other hand it's quite easy to be convinced that you have a disease if you read the symptoms online. And I honestly don't know if doctors are able to discern "fake" illnesses from "real" ones when the diagnosis is essentially 100% derived from patients reporting their symptoms.