Once again, I'm glad to have your perspective out there and hear how you are running your practice. As a non-authoritative source, but nevertheless perhaps unguarded and authentic, I frequently encounter discussion threads on Reddit in which people are enthusiastically describing their psychiatric conditions (sometimes seems like wearing…
Once again, I'm glad to have your perspective out there and hear how you are running your practice. As a non-authoritative source, but nevertheless perhaps unguarded and authentic, I frequently encounter discussion threads on Reddit in which people are enthusiastically describing their psychiatric conditions (sometimes seems like wearing a badge of honor), and "recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult" is a very common statement. This makes me raise one eyebrow, having had experience teaching as well as in medical, because if there were an ADHD kid in the class, *you would know it.* Question for the expert then, are adult-onset ADHD cases a common issue, and would this perhaps follow a similar etiological path as Parkinsonian loss of dopaminergic performance?
Given my own fond reliance on coffee and the challenges of making it through some heaps of documents, I could see the practical issues as an adult suddenly discovering Adderall ... but would not try it myself.
There are the cases of adults getting the diagnosis where they did indeed have it as a child, but they never treated it. They most likely had it all along, just never treated. True adult onset is a different bird. It is not common. Yes on the dopaminergic pathway being affected, usually due to trauma and PTSD, abuse or misuse of other drugs that has altered that pathway, (usually meth). There is any interesting cohort though to adult onset “lack of attention and focus” in the perimenopausal population. I have a lot of women in their mid to upper 40’s reporting very ADHD type symptoms related to drops in estrogen and progesterone. Is it truly adult onset ADHD? Highly likely not. It would be a medical condition (menopause) affecting cognitive function. Add in the newest problem on the block which is the covid vaccine and brain fog associated with covid illness, everyone is having some sort of neurological component from those two things. A lot of inattention and focus issues are related to anxiety and for some reason, those with “the virus they named covid” have been reporting much higher levels of anxiety and focusing problems. Most of those are vaccinated though as well so it becomes chicken/egg what came first.
I have seen such a huge influx of people coming in for “ADHD” new diagnosis in the last 3 years, I truly do believe the trauma and PTSD of the pandemic have perpetuated a lot of the symptoms. This little dictator experiment they launched on the world has definitely affected mental health across the board, with anxiety and lack of focus being the top two complaints I hear. Made it easy for Cerebral to dole out meds with ease. 🤦🏼♀️
Once again, I'm glad to have your perspective out there and hear how you are running your practice. As a non-authoritative source, but nevertheless perhaps unguarded and authentic, I frequently encounter discussion threads on Reddit in which people are enthusiastically describing their psychiatric conditions (sometimes seems like wearing a badge of honor), and "recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult" is a very common statement. This makes me raise one eyebrow, having had experience teaching as well as in medical, because if there were an ADHD kid in the class, *you would know it.* Question for the expert then, are adult-onset ADHD cases a common issue, and would this perhaps follow a similar etiological path as Parkinsonian loss of dopaminergic performance?
Given my own fond reliance on coffee and the challenges of making it through some heaps of documents, I could see the practical issues as an adult suddenly discovering Adderall ... but would not try it myself.
There are the cases of adults getting the diagnosis where they did indeed have it as a child, but they never treated it. They most likely had it all along, just never treated. True adult onset is a different bird. It is not common. Yes on the dopaminergic pathway being affected, usually due to trauma and PTSD, abuse or misuse of other drugs that has altered that pathway, (usually meth). There is any interesting cohort though to adult onset “lack of attention and focus” in the perimenopausal population. I have a lot of women in their mid to upper 40’s reporting very ADHD type symptoms related to drops in estrogen and progesterone. Is it truly adult onset ADHD? Highly likely not. It would be a medical condition (menopause) affecting cognitive function. Add in the newest problem on the block which is the covid vaccine and brain fog associated with covid illness, everyone is having some sort of neurological component from those two things. A lot of inattention and focus issues are related to anxiety and for some reason, those with “the virus they named covid” have been reporting much higher levels of anxiety and focusing problems. Most of those are vaccinated though as well so it becomes chicken/egg what came first.
I have seen such a huge influx of people coming in for “ADHD” new diagnosis in the last 3 years, I truly do believe the trauma and PTSD of the pandemic have perpetuated a lot of the symptoms. This little dictator experiment they launched on the world has definitely affected mental health across the board, with anxiety and lack of focus being the top two complaints I hear. Made it easy for Cerebral to dole out meds with ease. 🤦🏼♀️