I think the same is true for all the psychiatric disorders, but people talk about diagnosing and "having" these disorders as if they're definite things.
I don't understand for example why ADHD is any more real than any other collection of seemingly related symptoms one might conjure up. Just going by the criteria of the DSM, its logically possible for two people to be diagnosed while sharing only 3 of the 9 symptoms. And if one someone without ADHD can have 5/9 symptoms, and someone with ADHD can have the first 6 symptoms, and another can have the last 6, and another 1,3,5,7,8,9 of the symptoms, it says to me these symptoms can arise out of completely independent causes. So might it be possible someone meeting the clinical definition of ADHD can have just happen to have 6 independently caused symptoms?
Thats not to say I don't think people truly have physical issues, but there is nothing at all to say any two people who "have" depression or ADHD are anything at all alike.
I don't understand for example why ADHD is any more real than any other collection of seemingly related symptoms one might conjure up. Just going by the criteria of the DSM, its logically possible for two people to be diagnosed while sharing only 3 of the 9 symptoms. And if one someone without ADHD can have 5/9 symptoms, and someone with ADHD can have the first 6 symptoms, and another can have the last 6, and another 1,3,5,7,8,9 of the symptoms, it says to me these symptoms can arise out of completely independent causes. So might it be possible someone meeting the clinical definition of ADHD can have just happen to have 6 independently caused symptoms?
Thats not to say I don't think people truly have physical issues, but there is nothing at all to say any two people who "have" depression or ADHD are anything at all alike.