Paul Tough

And to make it even more complicated, what the CDC has found is that there is a lot of overlap among children who are diagnosed with ADHD. with other psychological problems. So about three quarters of kids who have received an ADHD diagnosis have also received a diagnosis for another psychological disorder or a learning problem.

And to make it even more complicated, what the CDC has found is that there is a lot of overlap among children who are diagnosed with ADHD. with other psychological problems. So about three quarters of kids who have received an ADHD diagnosis have also received a diagnosis for another psychological disorder or a learning problem.

And to make it even more complicated, what the CDC has found is that there is a lot of overlap among children who are diagnosed with ADHD. with other psychological problems. So about three quarters of kids who have received an ADHD diagnosis have also received a diagnosis for another psychological disorder or a learning problem.

And according to the DSM, if the symptoms of a child are better explained by another diagnosis, they shouldn't be diagnosed with ADHD. So that makes it really tricky that there is sometimes overlap between two things, but you're only supposed to diagnose ADHD if it is the one that is causing these symptoms.

And according to the DSM, if the symptoms of a child are better explained by another diagnosis, they shouldn't be diagnosed with ADHD. So that makes it really tricky that there is sometimes overlap between two things, but you're only supposed to diagnose ADHD if it is the one that is causing these symptoms.

And according to the DSM, if the symptoms of a child are better explained by another diagnosis, they shouldn't be diagnosed with ADHD. So that makes it really tricky that there is sometimes overlap between two things, but you're only supposed to diagnose ADHD if it is the one that is causing these symptoms.

Yeah, I think that's another part of the complication of this diagnosis. There are some doctors who think these are two entirely separate conditions that each should have its own listing in the DSM. And, you know, in fact, over the years, there have been lots of different sort of envelopes around ADHD. Its name has changed. The symptoms that predict it have changed.

Yeah, I think that's another part of the complication of this diagnosis. There are some doctors who think these are two entirely separate conditions that each should have its own listing in the DSM. And, you know, in fact, over the years, there have been lots of different sort of envelopes around ADHD. Its name has changed. The symptoms that predict it have changed.

Yeah, I think that's another part of the complication of this diagnosis. There are some doctors who think these are two entirely separate conditions that each should have its own listing in the DSM. And, you know, in fact, over the years, there have been lots of different sort of envelopes around ADHD. Its name has changed. The symptoms that predict it have changed.

There's clearly something going on in a lot of kids who are having trouble focusing, having trouble sitting still and paying attention. But in individual children, that expresses itself in lots of different ways. And that's another real struggle, I think, for clinicians, for families who are trying to figure out, you know, there's something going on with my kid. What is it?

There's clearly something going on in a lot of kids who are having trouble focusing, having trouble sitting still and paying attention. But in individual children, that expresses itself in lots of different ways. And that's another real struggle, I think, for clinicians, for families who are trying to figure out, you know, there's something going on with my kid. What is it?

There's clearly something going on in a lot of kids who are having trouble focusing, having trouble sitting still and paying attention. But in individual children, that expresses itself in lots of different ways. And that's another real struggle, I think, for clinicians, for families who are trying to figure out, you know, there's something going on with my kid. What is it?

And ADHD, I think, has become this sort of catch-all diagnosis that we use to just put together a lot of kids who may, in fact, be quite different.

And ADHD, I think, has become this sort of catch-all diagnosis that we use to just put together a lot of kids who may, in fact, be quite different.

And ADHD, I think, has become this sort of catch-all diagnosis that we use to just put together a lot of kids who may, in fact, be quite different.

Well, I don't think we know exactly what's going on, but what studies of amphetamines, the drug at the root of the two most popular medications for ADHD, what amphetamines do is they help make whatever you're focused on seem more interesting. And so I think that then makes sense, right?

Well, I don't think we know exactly what's going on, but what studies of amphetamines, the drug at the root of the two most popular medications for ADHD, what amphetamines do is they help make whatever you're focused on seem more interesting. And so I think that then makes sense, right?

Well, I don't think we know exactly what's going on, but what studies of amphetamines, the drug at the root of the two most popular medications for ADHD, what amphetamines do is they help make whatever you're focused on seem more interesting. And so I think that then makes sense, right?

If you're having impulse control, if you're distracted by everything else that's going on in the room, when you take this medication that makes whatever you're supposed to be looking at seem more interesting, it makes it easier to focus, easier to sit still.

If you're having impulse control, if you're distracted by everything else that's going on in the room, when you take this medication that makes whatever you're supposed to be looking at seem more interesting, it makes it easier to focus, easier to sit still.