What really annoys me with ADHD is that it often paints a binary word with people who can focus and people who cannot. In reality it’s like everything else, it’s a spectrum.
I'm diagnosed. I think the underlying nutrition/chemical baselines of individuals need to be studied. It makes no sense to lump all these symptoms under one label. I guess that's just the state of psychiatry though... Could some model of the brain be made for machine learning tools to play with?
Also, does it matter? People are all different. The only thing that puts importance on these arbitrary differentiators is if you can integrate with the arbitrary rules that we created
I think it matters in terms of treatment plans. Sinus issues can cause ADHD symptoms. Nutrient deficiencies can cause them. Brain damage. Immune problems. And so on.
If we were better able to uncover what helps move people toward their preferred homeostatic state, it would reduce a lot of suffering. As it is, we spray and pray, shotgun blasting people's brains with amphetamines, bupropion, methylphenidate...
What I imagine is a spreadsheet with all of the values we uncover that affect an individual's state of mind. I guess that would be a simulation of human physiology and I'm curious if that's being worked on at all...
