Are smart phones destroying our mental health?::undefined

  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The child might be prescribed with medicine for an ADHD diagnosis, whereas the root cause is a flaky parent.

    I’d just like to say that this does not tend to be the issue in ADHD diagnoses, and is framing the issue of ADHD in a very incorrect way.

    • kicksystem@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Perhaps. I am not an expert. It was an example of a problem where the diagnosis depends more on the social context than on the biological context.

      My wife is a family systems therapist and she told me once of a case, where one group of therapist had a child diagnosed with autism and another group found that the parents were the problem and that the child was only behaving in a certain way as a reaction to the parents’ behavior. They had a meeting on the topic and after re-evaluation they decided that the child was not autistic after all.