ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes

Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by anonymars on Friday August 15, 2025 @01:48PM (#44915354)

Physical pain is subjective too. What isn't?

It also appears all the qualifiers are removed, for example

* Often appears not to be listening when spoken to

* Frequently loses items required for tasks and activities

* Is frequently easily distracted by extraneous stimuli

* Often forgets daily activities

* Is frequently reluctant to engage in tasks which require sustained attention

and so on.

Everyone forgets a name or a word every once in a while and that doesn't mean they are senile, yet we recognize senility exists past a threshold.

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by skeezyboy on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:15AM (#44960517)

but the threshold is vague and arbirtary.

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by anonymars on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:47AM (#44971566)

As it is with the other examples. So if it can't be measured it doesn't exist? Is this the dead spirit of Robert McNamara?

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by skeezyboy on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:09AM (#44973754)

>So if it can't be measured it doesn't exist? Nah. If its vague and arbitrary maybe it should be the basis of a medical condition

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by anonymars on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:28AM (#44974008)

Then I guess it's a good thing you're not a doctor, because that's life -- trying to make the best of subjective/incomplete information

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by skeezyboy on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:18AM (#44960526)

and theres nothing subjective about a broken leg, no two doctors would disagree on a broken leg like they would disagree over mental health conditions. you meant to say physical "health" is subjective, ie what we class as "unhealthy".

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Re:ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes by anonymars on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:41AM (#44971527)

I meant physical "pain", which is why we have subjective scales (1-10, faces) and one can't tell if someone's just faking it for drugs

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