ADHD is neither a modern phenomenon nor a purely American or Western one. It was not dreamed up in response to pressure from the pharmaceutical industry or in response to modern academic pressures and the drive to succeed in school.
. This means that experts still don’t understand the underlying biological causes, or the exact, of ADHD. In most areas of medicine, the underlying pathologies of disorders are very well defined. Psychiatry, however, is an exception in this regard.that can confirm whether a person has this disorder. In its place, doctors use symptom evaluations and other measures to determine ADHD symptomology.
In the 1800s, the German physician Heinrich Hoffman wrote poems and drew illustrations to describe the children he saw in practice. One great example is Fidgety Phil, who he describes as, “Let me see if Philip can be a little gentleman. Let me see if he is able to sit still for once at the table. But Fidgety Phil won’t sit still. He wriggles, he giggles, and then I declare, swings backwards, and forwards and tilts up his chair.
What’s more, the rates of ADHD around the world are fairly consistent at between 5% and 6% of each population. If ADHD were purely a Western phenomenon, we would see the rates very high in North America and Europe and very low in all other continents. That’s not what the data are showing us.The problem is rooted in brain chemistry, not discipline. When a child with ADHD blurts things out or gets out of his seat in class, it’s not because he hasn’t been taught that these behaviors are wrong.
. It’s in the more mundane and less stimulating settings where you see the distractibility really come to the surface.More than 70% of the individuals who have ADHD in childhood continue to have it in adolescence. Up to 50% will continue to have it in adulthood. ADHD Myth #7: Children who take ADHD medication are more likely to abuse drugs when they become teenagers.the risk that an individual will abuse drugs or alcohol. Appropriate treatment reduces this risk.
What’s driving this misconception is a very, very common mistake — equating correlation with causation. What’s driving the risk for substance use is the ADHD, not the medication.
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