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The textbook symptoms of ADD — inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity — fail to reflect several of its most powerful characteristics; the ones that shape your perceptions, emotions, and motivation. Here, Dr. William Dodson explains how to recognize and manage ADHD's true defining features.
The DSM-V – the bible of psychiatric diagnosis – lists 18 diagnostic criteria for attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD). Clinicians use this to identify symptoms, insurance companies use it to determine coverage, and researchers use it to determine areas of worthwhile study.
The problem: These criteria only describe how ADHD affects children ages 6-12, and that has led to misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, and failed treatment for teens, adults, and the elderly.
Most people, clinicians included, have only a vague understanding of what ADHD means. They assume it equates to hyperactivity and poor focus, mostly in children. They are wrong.
When we step back and ask, "What does everyone with ADHD have in common, that people without ADHD don't experience?" a different set of symptoms take shape.
From this perspective, three defining features of ADHD emerge that explain every aspect of the condition:
1. an interest-based nervous system
2. emotional hyperarousal
3. rejection sensitivity
Not precisely news but damned if it's not an interesting read if it has any relevance in your life.
Source: https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 15 2018, @11:06PM
Proposal for 18USC63 [cornell.edu]
Submitted as HR666 by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.
Bill Titile: Fight Unwanted Creeps, Kooks, Tramps, Homeless, Effing Punks, and Obsequious, Obtuse Retards (FUCKTHEPOOR) Act of 2018.
New section 1352:
Whoever commits fraud against the United States by being shiftless, lazy, unemployed or ungrateful for their existence (unless they can document a personal net worth greater than or equal to US$750,000.00, in which case they are exempt from this section) shall be subject to the following penalties:
(1) Shiftless or lazy persons, defined as being unwilling to work due to lack of ambition, sloth, lack of skills, illness, injury, verbal/physical/sexual harassment or discrimination shall be sterilized immediately.
Should such persons not remediate these issues within 120 days, they shall be put to death. No appeals or clemency is permitted.
(2) Any person (having reached the age of nine years) must be employed and working at least 62 hours per week. Should such person's working hours drop below 50 hours for more than four weeks, they shall be sterilized and beaten severely with a club. Such a person then has two weeks to bring their working hours (no time is allowed for medical care due to injuries from the required beating) back up to at least 62 hours. Should a person fail to do so, they shall be put to death.
If such a person meets the work hours requirement within the allotted two weeks, if they do not maintain those working hours consistently for at least five years, they shall be put to death. If a person has maintained those working hours for at least five years and once again falls below the required working hours for four weeks, they shall once again be beaten, and if they have nor remediated the situation within two weeks, they shall be put to death.
No appeals or clemency is permitted
(3) If a person is ungrateful for their existence, whether it be complaining about their "harsh" treatment, "poor" working conditions, "insufficient" remuneration or a general dissatisfaction with their lives, they will be immediately sterilized, but may publicly repudiate such statements once. IF they do not publicly repudiate such statements, they shall be severely beaten with a club, then put to death. If such a public repudiation is made and further such statements are made, such a person will be beaten severely with a club.
Should such a person make any further, similar statements, they shall be put to death. No appeals or clemency is permitted.
(4) Should any such person ever sanctioned under this section (unless they have already been put to death) increase their personal net worth to be greater than or equal to US$750,000.00, they shall be absolved of all previous infractions, and the state shall put to death 25 persons* of their choosing.
*Such persons may not include any who have a personal net worth greater than or equal to US$750,000.00.
(5) Violations of this section will not be reviewed by any court. Sentences will be carried out within six hours of their registration with the regional Societal Upgrade Control Investigative Team (SUCkIT).
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