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Sweden orders review after 'explosion' of ADHD cases
(insiderpaper.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
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To me, this smacks of the MRSA problem the NHS (UK) had.
MRSA is an antibiotic resistant bacterial skin infection people can get and people were getting them in UK hospital. It does happen in hospitals but the rates of infection were too consistently high at the time because they weren't catching outbreaks soon enough and when they did, they didnt act soon enough.
After the public and news groups became aware of the problem, reforms were promised. An investigation showed that new, improved reporting measures should fix the problem. When they implemented the policies from the investigation and improved their reporting practices, you'll never guess what, reported cases of MRSA went up!
What a surprise.
If you had continued the trend lines from that, then I'm sure you can guess the kind of inflated "top end" figures you'd end up at.
I mean, there might turn out to be a problem but you also have to account for improvements in reporting standards.
The real problem is, improvements in reporting standards and improvements in interdepartmental coordination is boring as fuck! Who wants to read about that?
Who would have thought that if you go out and actively look for stuff you might actually find it.
But review is good I guess. Is it being over diagnosed, or do we really have to rethink stuff because there are loads of people struggling in the construct we have created because they are not neurotypical.
My guess is ADHD is more common than we thought and it needs to get more attention by not only diagnosing and medicating where needed, it also requires other systemic changes to accommodate for ADHD.
Like dyslexia.. on my youth people where just considered slow or stupid.. turns out they had a condition out of their control.
Tbf, being slow or stupid is usually also out of your control.
Fair enough, I was just referencing how they then talked about people with A low IQ.