My son was diagnosed with severe ADHD by one neuropsychologist. Medication was strongly recommended. He was then brought to a psychiatrist, the best in my area to the point where he is well-known, and he said that my son actually has General Anxiety Disorder. His ADHD-like behavior is caused because of severe anxiety.
If we had treated him as severe ADHD, he would have gone on medication. The medication would have exacerbated his anxiety and caused worse behavior and we would have increased the dose. The entire thing would have ruined his childhood from the misdiagnosis.
So you are very wrong. The cause of the ADHD behavior is required. There are many children who would benefit from medication. But many children would have their lives ruined by the medication as well if misdiagnosed.
That’s why I was saying it’s a collection of symptoms and because it’s up to individual therapists to diagnose, it gets misdiagnosed very very often.
> If we had treated him as severe ADHD, he would have gone on medication. The medication would have exacerbated his anxiety and caused worse behavior and we would have increased the dose. The entire thing would have ruined his childhood from the misdiagnosis.
You've imagined a situation. You're catastrophising. Increasing the dose when symptoms get worse would be profoundly stupid on your part and that of the psychiatrist: that's the part where they'd reassess the diagnosis. You have the gall to call me "deadly wrong" about my lived experience of ADHD based on an imagined situation?
My son was diagnosed with severe ADHD by one neuropsychologist. Medication was strongly recommended. He was then brought to a psychiatrist, the best in my area to the point where he is well-known, and he said that my son actually has General Anxiety Disorder. His ADHD-like behavior is caused because of severe anxiety.
If we had treated him as severe ADHD, he would have gone on medication. The medication would have exacerbated his anxiety and caused worse behavior and we would have increased the dose. The entire thing would have ruined his childhood from the misdiagnosis.
So you are very wrong. The cause of the ADHD behavior is required. There are many children who would benefit from medication. But many children would have their lives ruined by the medication as well if misdiagnosed.
That’s why I was saying it’s a collection of symptoms and because it’s up to individual therapists to diagnose, it gets misdiagnosed very very often.