The number of ADHD diagnoses rises because of publicity.

Today I read an article with the topic: what are the symptoms of ADHD? That was not the first time when things like ADHD played a big role in the media. For some reason, ADHD is so public diagnosis. And the media is full of stories about those things. 

The media is full of stories about ADHD or some other psychiatric or neuropsychiatric diseases. The attitude toward that diagnosis is how it limits people's life. 

And that thing causes the situation where people observe themselves and other people. Looking for the marks of those symptoms. ADHD is the thing that explains everything. And in many stories, ADHD will affect jut in later life when a person starts their educational studies. 

The media is full of stories about when "Jack" or "Jill", 27 years old, went to the hospital. And there was diagnosed with ADHD. Then Jack continues his life in the workroom and leaves his studies. That was so stressful that he couldn't manage those things. And then, their life continued in a safe community. The home assistant visits two times per week. 

This means that ADHD is a diagnosis that is media-made. The great publicity causes people are searching for those symptoms more often than before. Maybe some people have this thing, but because all newspapers and media tales are full of that kind of thing, that causes the situation where people go to the doctor more often than before. 

In the world, millions of people are sent that kind of test, for testing things like ADHD. The reason for those tests is simple, some teachers, social workers, or neighbors who read those kinds of things from the newspaper are suggested that the person has this kind of symptom. 

The fact is that great publicity increases the number of certain diagnoses. The reason for that is that many media stories about some diagnosis increase number of persons who visit in doctor because somebody suspects that the person has this diagnosis. The same thing that happens with ADHD sometimes happens with cancer. 

When the media is full of stories about cancer and other kinds of things some neighbor sees that symptom, and then that person tells a story about the person like a cab driver, etc. who heard it from somebody else. The tale is about this person who sneezed, went to the doctor, and there was cancer in both lungs. That is one of the urban legends. We know that there should be some other symptoms on both sides of lung cancer than just sneezing. 

Maybe that thing has some kind of effect on the physical condition.  But then the person who wants to avoid arguing with a neighbor will take the time for the doctor, and then spend a couple of hours in cancer tests. That thing means that person gives some blood tests. 

But that thing causes loss of tax payer's money. And lot's of waste of time. The fact is:  we should not always go to the doctor when some people say that our symptoms seem like something. 

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Social withdrawal is one of the things that is causing discussions.

When we see persons who are social withdrawal. We must ask one very important question. Are those people alone, because of their own will, or are they kicked out from the team? If the person is somehow different, that thing can cause other people to want to close them out from their group. 

That thing can cause very big trauma for people who are trying to be social. If the only answer for the person who tries to come to talk with other people is silence or some "get lost" that thing can cause that person would not even want to talk with other people. The reason for social withdrawal can be that person gets bad feedback during the first years in school. 

Social withdrawal is one example of the things like complicated psychiatric diseases like autism and schizophrenia. There is a genetic disorder behind those things. And the fact is that autism and schizophrenia are the most complicated psychiatrical disorders in the world. There is the possibility that an autist would not say a thing in the day, but the same person can play some symphony after hearing it once. Or otherwise, an artist can draw a perfect copy of the things by seeing them only once. 

People like Albert Einstein claimed to have Asperger's syndrome. Which is one version of autism.  Schizophrenia is even more problematic than autism. There are remarkable people like John Nash and J. Robert Oppenheimer that had schizophrenia.

Also the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, Andrei Sakharov had schizophrenia. But there is suspicion that the KGB made that diagnosis for political reasons. Schizophrenic people can see things differently. But that diagnosis is also used for delivering people to work camps in the Soviet Union. 

The thing that causes social withdrawal in the cases when a person has schizophrenia is that those people are stigmatized as dangerous. In the cases of mental disorders, people are connecting those things with school shootings and other kinds of criminal behavior. The media makes sure that people know if some serial killer has some kind of mental disorder and that thing causes social isolation. 

The fact is that the autistic person's ability to communicate with other people is limited. Social contacts stress them because they must use more energy for being social.  And that thing causes problems with social contacts, and those people need also positive feedback for their attempts to make social relationships. 

Maybe medicals can also help, but social contacts are not replaced by using some chemicals. But what would you do if all answers that you get, when you try to discuss with other people are some kind of "get lost"? Would you want to make contact with other people after those things? 

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