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Is up to 30 percent of ADHD misdiagnosed?

It’s a possibility, says the psychiatrist who identified the disorder:

. . . skeptics believe the diagnosis is a ‘biobabble’ label, which has evolved from a soundbite culture that is too prepared to medicalise anti-social human traits.

Dr Spitzer, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York, now says the classification led to many people being diagnosed as medically disordered when their mood swings and behaviour were simply normal feelings of happiness and sadness.

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