Does ADHD actually exist?

Does ADHD actually exist?

Do any Veeky Forumsizens here have it? Seems like bullchit to me but I have problems concentrating and focusing so it seems like a maybe event

I have a really hard time reading more than 1 page of anything without becoming distracted and doing something else. There weird thing is, a lot of times I become distracted by my anxiety. Like if I have 50 pages of reading to do and I know I might have to discuss the reading the next day, I'll read a page and become so anxious that I'll stop reading in order to do something that makes me feel a little more relaxed, then I'll try to go back to reading. It's seriously detrimental to my life because I'm in Grad School where I need to read hundreds of pages a week.

I went to an ADHD therapist once and all he did was try to discuss my childhood. It was infuriating. It was like psychology 101 bullshit. Needless to say I didn't get prescribed any medication.

I've gotten different forms of ADHD meds from friends and recently I took some for about a week. It improved my quality of life 10x and made my anxiety not as much of an issue.

TLDR; I think it exists and I think I have it, but so does everybody else probably.

ADHD does exist. However it's so overdiagnosed that if you've been diagnosed for it as a kid you're more likely to not have it anyway

Doesn't exist. It's a function of fitting a square peg in a round hole. Like trying to force straight people to be gay.

I think so
I take adderall every day. I also have chronic fatigue so it’s the only thing that keeps me awake long enough to get anything done
However I’m crashing right now, and when that happens I can’t feel like I can control what I focus on for the last couple of hours. Like right now I needed to start homework two hours ago
Great for losing weight too tho

this sounds like my reality too. Is this normal?

>Does ADHD exist
If you ask this on fit non ironically you first of all too dumb to even understand the problem we are having in understanding psychiatric knowledge in general. Go to a website called wikipedia and start reading the article ADHD

>PROBLEM SOLVED

What sucks is that this medication helps me with fatigue and general depression yet not many dr are willing to prescribe it even though it helps me

I was so nervous about talking to my doctor about trying it
I’m going to be honest with you though, you don’t have to make life a big struggle.
If your doctor won’t prescribe it to you, find a different one
I walked out with an adderall prescription the same day I went to my current doctor for the first time

I used to think that I had ADHD... I was tiered all the time and not able to focus on anything - at all.

A it turns out, I was just not genuinely interested in what I was doing at the time.

Now I have my dream job and I my concentration and energy is trough the roof.

Would not recommend any medication. I think ADHD is more about psychology than psychiatry.