A professional diagnosis with ADHD doesn't rely on any actual biological testing and only upon a performance by the patient and maybe evidence submitted from teachers/bosses/friends/family/etc, and it's known that a patient can fake their way to a diagnosis. So I don't care if ADHD is self-diagnosed or not, if somebody wants to get a "real diagnosis", it's easy as shit for anybody to get one, and "real diagnosis" is rising at the same time that self-diagnosis is regardless.
People can diagnose themselves with whatever they want, psychiatric diagnosis is largely bullshit, my question is more why do people WANT to diagnose themselves with these conditions, and does having labels like this actually help you.
To me, I see this entire phenomenon as being rooted in psychiatry taking it for granted that the more diagnosis's the general population has, the more drugs they're, the more therapy they're in, the better off they are. When psychiatry seems to think that more is better, why shouldn't teenagers think that too? Psychiatry has been applying more and more labels to the general population for decades and decades, if trends continue, todays self-diagnosed teen is next decade's totally valid patient, so aren't teens just getting ahead of the curve by self-diagnosing now?
People can diagnose themselves with whatever they want, psychiatric diagnosis is largely bullshit, my question is more why do people WANT to diagnose themselves with these conditions, and does having labels like this actually help you.
To me, I see this entire phenomenon as being rooted in psychiatry taking it for granted that the more diagnosis's the general population has, the more drugs they're, the more therapy they're in, the better off they are. When psychiatry seems to think that more is better, why shouldn't teenagers think that too? Psychiatry has been applying more and more labels to the general population for decades and decades, if trends continue, todays self-diagnosed teen is next decade's totally valid patient, so aren't teens just getting ahead of the curve by self-diagnosing now?