This may seem a bit soft-that the treatment of hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention is to help you build relationships and improve your self-esteem, instead of the most popular scientific goal of reforming your broken mind. But he thought about this controversial statement on the 2017 Martin Hawjman paper. I wrote that it is important to explain the puzzle data as an affirmation that patients with hyperactivity and attention disorder “have changed minds”, because this biological interpretation “will help reduce the stigma of ADHD” but they depict ADHD as “brain disorder” actually reduces the stigma? It may not, in fact, He increases The young man feels shame and isolation to be told that they suffer from brain disorder?
An Australian psychologist named Louise Kazda studied this particular question. In the 2021 review paperShe and her colleagues found 14 studies that receiving the diagnosis of hyperactivity and attention disorder created the feeling of “empowerment” by “supporting the feeling of legitimacy accompanied by understanding and sympathy, as well as low guilt, blame and anger.” But in 22 other studies, Kazda wrote, “It was found that a vital medical point of view of difficulties is related to non -empowerment. By providing an excuse for problems, a decrease in responsibility can occur by all concerned, and often follows progress in work and stagnation.” 14 additional study found that the diagnosis increased the feelings of stigma. “The diagnosis can create an identity that enhances bias and wisdom,” Kazda mentioned, “which is linked to greater feelings of isolation, exclusion and shame.”
It is still completely unclear why it seems that the simple act of providing a diagnosis of hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention has such deep effects on some children and their families. But it is certain that in light of the medical model, the diagnosis sends a completely different message from a model like a model like Sonuga-Barke’s, which sees ADHD symptoms of a person, at least partially, the product of an inconsistency with a specific environment.
For some parents, it may be less stigma, and more comfortable, to be able to say, “My child suffers from hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention, a medical condition, so he needs to take this medicine every day”, instead of, “I want my child to succeed in the environments that do not fit, so I want him to take these pills.” For many children, the diagnosis of hyperactivity disorder and a lack of attention that is connected through the dominant medical model can feel more than the stigma; You can feel like a life sentence. Often the message to children is that ADHD is a bi -biological and biological category, and if your symptoms put you in this category, your mind suffers from a deficit, and you have a disorder.
On the contrary, the child’s alternative model tells a completely different story: the presence of symptoms of hyperactivity disorder and lack of attention in a continuous chain, which we all find; He may suffer from these symptoms as much as he is due to who is because of who is; Next year, if things change in its vicinity, these symptoms may also change. Armed with this understanding, he and his family can decide whether the drug is logical – whether for him, the benefits are likely to outperform the defects. At the same time, they can think if there are changes in its position, or at school or at home, may help relieve its symptoms. If he also suffers from other psychological conditions-anxiety, depression or stress after shock-they can take steps to address these deeper issues, regardless of his inability to focus in the category of mathematics.
