Good thread with lots of great responses so far.
For what it’s worth, I rarely see patients referred out (by PCP or midlevels) for testing who don’t ultimately make their way to me with a “diagnosis” of ADHD. Easily 9 out of every 10 referrals comes back with a seal of approval that they indeed have ADHD. So except in those rare cases where some other learning disorder is discovered, this is largely useless data for me.
Ultimately I think the surge in demand is related to psychiatry once again being used to solve societal problems, namely that the work most of us do in a service-based economy is boring, unfulfilling, and sedentary (aka “bull**** jobs”).
For what it’s worth, I rarely see patients referred out (by PCP or midlevels) for testing who don’t ultimately make their way to me with a “diagnosis” of ADHD. Easily 9 out of every 10 referrals comes back with a seal of approval that they indeed have ADHD. So except in those rare cases where some other learning disorder is discovered, this is largely useless data for me.
Ultimately I think the surge in demand is related to psychiatry once again being used to solve societal problems, namely that the work most of us do in a service-based economy is boring, unfulfilling, and sedentary (aka “bull**** jobs”).