ADHD Diagnostic Criteria - Part 2

Try 'Allgemein Krankheit Syndrome Disorder' (or 'AKSD'); that's one of my personal favourites - doesn't it have just a simply excellent medical sound to it? If you read the International Consensus Statement again with the word 'AKSD' substituted for each one of the twenty-five instances of 'ADHD', you'll find that - because you haven't been told how Allgemein Krankheit Syndrome Disorder is diagnosed (just as you haven't been told how 'ADHD' is diagnosed) - you would have to simply take it on trust that the characteristics and effects attributed to it are fact not fiction. It would be impossible for you to do otherwise.

In other words, if I was Dr. Russell Barkley and I told you, for example, that "All of the major medical associations and government health agencies recognize AKSD as a genuine disorder because the scientific evidence indicating it is so is overwhelming"; or "there is no doubt that AKSD leads to impairments in major life activities, including social relations, education, family functioning, occupational functioning, self-sufficiency, and adherence to social rules, norms, and laws." - you'd be absolutely none the wiser.

What Dr. Barkley and his 74 other "prominent medical doctors and researchers in AD/HD" have come up with is, in the final analysis, merely an assortment of unsubstantiated claims. Because they have failed to validate the diagnostic criteria (nor can they, in my opinion), their case for 'ADHD' as presented in the International Consensus Statement is worthless to anyone interested in the facts.

'Allgemein Krankheit', by the way, is German for general or universal illness - which is, more or less, what Dr. Barkley seems to have been talking about in his Statement.

And, now, back to brain scans.

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