The Great ADHD Myth? (C4)
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Are you easily distracted? Do you fidget? Are you talkative, and apt to interrupt others or blurt out answers before the question is finished? Do you lose your keys and feel frustrated in queues?
Congratulations! You have ADHD — or at least, you’ve got it if you want it. All those traits, unbelievably, are officially symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to the bible of psychiatric medicine, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
What was a largely unknown condition until recent decades has become an epidemic, with
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