Pre-tldr update: if you believe you are suffering from a disease, a disorder, or is otherwise feeling not well, please go see a doctor. This is the internet, we're not qualified to provide medical advice, and would prescribe horse dewormer for shits and giggles, if it was in our powers.

No, and I dare the people saying yes to present a single article on pubmed to back it up!

Tldr: I'm not saying that you don't have ADHD, just that you may have the correlation a bit mixed up.

What you can have is a situation where you've grown up with ADHD, but you have managed the symptoms. There are various strategies one can employ, and usually you'll develop them by yourself. But with a attentive parent, you can have been taught some strategies as well. Then as an adult you have experienced some stress, and that stress have made you less able to apply your management strategies, and now your existing ADHD is showing.

For some it may show with similar symptoms as depression. Personally I've been in three or four different therapeutic processes for depression. I've been medicated at least twice, and have seen three(?) psychologists. Guess what, none of it actually worked.

A key part of an ADHD diagnosis is determining whether you exhibited symptoms as a child. I got diagnosed in my late 30s/early 40s, and I had to have my parent fill out a form about my childhood behavior 30 years ago. At least in Danish medicine, you cannot be diagnosed with ADHD if you didn't present the symptoms before adulthood.

[–] BeAware@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why so condescending?

Here you go

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33692893/

Results are inconclusive because a lack of research.

A lack of research doesn't equal a lack of total existence. Just because they don't have enough to go on, doesn't mean it's not a thing.

The brain still isn't fully understood anywhere in the world and those who say it is, are lying.

The fact is, behavior is one of the worst "Illnesses" to treat and if the symptoms align and are treated the exact same way and the behavior never goes away or can be effectively fixed, then what exactly is the difference?

Am I going to shun someone that has experienced the same things as me but the reasons they experience these things are different? No. That doesn't add up.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Firstly, without delving deeper than the abstract, the linked article only seek to assess the prevalence of adult diagnoses, not whether the people exhibited symptoms in childhood. So at first glance the article doesn't appear to be arguing for adult onset ADHD without childhood symptoms.

Secondly, any condescension is purely interpreted. I mean no disrespect. I may be quite sharp in my communication, but that's because I have somewhat of a problem with people advising based on nothing more than their feelings or a hunch.

All anyone really should be replying is "IDK, I'm not qualified to provide medical advice, if you think someghing is wrong, you should go see a doctor" ... but I mean, that would make for quite the boring thread.

[–] BeAware@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So then you agree that both of our back and forths, including both of our original comments, are redundant and they should go get checked? Okay. Let me fix my comment to make that more clear👍

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Abso-fucking-lutely. This conversation should have ended with "go see a real doctor, this is the internet, we would prescribe horse dewormer if we could". The rest has just been an intellectual circle jerk TBH.

[–] BeAware@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

And so it will.

"Go see a real doctor, this is the internet, we would prescribe horse dewormer if we could"

-BigDanishGuy, my colleague in unprofessional opinions, Lemmy, 2024 😉😝