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Originally Posted by rabblerouser
Then can you please explain how it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world??
It's a purely American phenomenon...
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It exists elsewhere in the world, but the circumstances leading to the diagnosis are often mishandled. I already stated that I think it's way overdiagnosed especially among children.
American parents typically aren't around as much to structure the lives of their kids. This has a significant effect when kids are spending their unstructured time doing whatever they want at home and then getting to school where they have to sit in a desk and get test standards shoved in their ears.
There are differences to explain why America has a problem with the increase, but to say outright that ADD and ADHD don't exist because some hippie says so shows a gap in your logic.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525089/
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/04/adhd.aspx