„Es gibt keine Beweise dafür, dass ADHS in Großbritannien überdiagnostiziert wird“, sagen Experten
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-05/no-evidence-adhd-is-overdiagnosed-in-the-uk?fbclid=Iwb21leAQX-QdjbGNrBBf5A2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHth54hRR4jUZcNG6MFjVzF28ZA8PbkqQUdx7Rzqjx4biqX3C9vHviOfKaOL-_aem_PdNFpSseZkGP-tvC37r33A
Von AnonymousTimewaster
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Of course there isn’t.
The overwhelming narratives peddled in the right wing media and politics in general is nothing less than a most highly cynical grift to shift blame and attention away from the root causes of so many of the country’s most intractable problems and scapegoat and ‘other’ people living with ADHD, Autism, mental illness in general, alongside the disabled, people of colour, immigrants and trans people….
If anything from what I’ve seen it’s massively under diagnosed.
Getting support for a family member with this took years.
Once they got support and medication they went from being a chaotic mess who got bad report cards, to a student coming top of their class and making friends.
How many generations of kids have we written off as ’naughty boys‘ because some lazy teacher didn’t spot they …. Couldn’t spell (dyslexia), were easily distracted (ADHD) or didn’t behave ‚right‘ (autism).
Go to any top university Post grad department and I’ll bet you find a high percentage of the people there have at least one of the above.
How many kids who didn’t get support don’t get to be in that position?
I’ve just been diagnosed after 32 years of ignoring the problem and currently waiting for titration for medication. I could go another 32 years im sure. I’ve made it this far. It’s moderate, I have a family, a job etc.. my life is functional. Effectively it comes down to this, can my life be improved with a diagnosis and treatment or not. If I don’t have it, medication will make me slightly less healthy with no extra benefit. If I do have it, medication will make life easier and make me a better dad and more effective worker. Nobody’s trying to pretend they have a terminal illness. People are trying to improve their lives
The experts have always been saying that. It’s this and the previous goverment that keeps plugging their ears and trying to claim the opposite.
ADHD was only recognised by NICE as a condition in children in the UK (except Scotland) in 2000. Before this, a very few children with severe impairment and wealthy parents had private diagnoses. It was only recognised as a condition in adults in 2008 and finally recognised as a condition nationwide in 2009. Access to adult ADHD assessments remained excruciatingly slow until the establishment of the Right to Choose pathway (only in England) in 2018.
As is often the case, we’re currently on the up-curve [of this graph](https://miro.medium.com/1*yUIVmzSuoKi9EmgdB811uQ.png) and some people are freaking out.
YOU MEAN PEOPLE LIVING WITH SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS ARE BEING BLAMED FOR THE DAILY STRUGGLES THEY HAVE TO LIVE WITH?
IN THIS COUNTRY???
No one with any relevant knowledge is surprised by this.
Disabled people are classic scapegoats in dysfunctioning societies such as ours.
Here’s a link to the paper:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/adhd-over-diagnosis-fiction-fashion-and-failure/1163426C23804A7049FE35D940EA938C
I wouldn’t say it’s particularly high quality, but it’s an interesting enough read.
Isn’t the rate here supposed to be 3 x that in say, Holland? How’s that?
I’m sure the right wing media will either ignore this or find some way to carry on beating this dead horse so they can blame everything on people with ADHD.
>But they add: “Some cases may be misdiagnosed due to low-quality assessment, poor adherence to national guidance, or inappropriate differential diagnosis.”
>Meanwhile, in addition to misdiagnosis, they said there has been a tendency over time to recognise more “mild” ADHD cases, and they point out that more work is needed in this field.
Let’s say for the last 20 years I’ve been going round the country labelling oak trees. I’ve not found them all, but along the way I’ve managed to incorrectly label lots of other trees. Lately I’ve been labelling things that aren’t even trees at all.
So while it’s technically true that the number of labels I’ve issued so far is less than the total number of oak trees…you would probably still say I’ve been over-identifying oak trees.
It probably isn’t – if anything, it may be under diagnosed due to only being recognised relatively recently, so many adults will be undiagnosed.
I most likely have ADHD – but haven’t been diagnosed. Through primary school and secondary school I, and my parents, were told by teachers that I was easily distracted and struggled to focus, i was hyperactive as a kid too. They suggested that I should see a specialist.
My parents generally agreed with the teachers’ diagnosis, but as I was also recognised as being smart, they didn’t want to risk me being labelled as having ‘additional needs’ and being treated differently, and potentially not ending up being placed in the top sets.
Therefore, the irony of the situation is that I didn’t get any additional support, but I also ended up in all top sets – which my parents still say likely wouldn’t have happened if I’d been diagnosed.
I have no idea what schools are like nowadays, but if it’s anything like the above, then we need to review how we treat young people with ADHD. Is an ADHD diagnosis a self-fulfilling prophecy for many? If so, we need to prevent this.
The other side of the coin is the benefits that are available for severe cases. If a diagnosis is a self-fulfilling prophecy, it’s likely to result in greater need of benefits. There’s also an incentive to cross the severity ‘threshold’ in order to receive some additional financial support from the welfare state.
Also, if many undiagnosed adults – such as myself – are able to function and build a fairly successful life (although some situations can be challenging) without requiring state support, why are so many young people unable to do the same and subsequently require state support?
Ultimately, it’s not just about the level of diagnosis, it’s what we as a society do with that information that needs to be reviewed.
I lack faith in this country’s establishment that it’s always their first instincts to doubt people and insist that they know how things really are, rather than assume maybe people are correct and that ADHD diagnoses may be increasing because ADHD is either becoming more common or is more common than previously thought.
The estimated prevalence is 4%, before it was diagnosed at rates of something like 0.3% of the population. Diagnoses started to see some of the backlog of people who were never assessed before and everyone started losing their minds.
Think about how ridiculous it is that the government wanted to “tackle the issue” of *doctors diagnosing people with conditions*. Just on the basis of it saving them some money.
I can only say that I knew an educational/clinical psychologist who worked for the education authority or similar. And she said that she would observe kids, decide they obviousky didn’t have ADHD and immediately the parents would go get a private diagnosis instead that would say they had ADHD.
This makes me feel better after learning I am severely ADD at 32.