Episode 116 Does Mild ADHD Exist?
The ADHD Adults Podcast
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The Difference Between DSM Five and DSM Four for ADHD
Currently the diagnostic criteria requires you to have five of those nine symptoms but in the real world a good psychiatrist will work with you to understand the impairments your symptoms cause rather than just following the tick box process. If they if you just tick them all off they're going to go okay that's pretty obvious so it starts to get interesting. It does appear to actually be problematic we'll wait I do someYeah it's a really good question the tangfenging was next Rob to Thomas the Tangfenging several studies looked at symptom numbers before the criteria were changed and suggested that if you lower the number of symptoms that might be appropriate in adults soon after we've suggested that reducing the
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