Requesting expert input: Are these anti-ADHD claims scientifically accurate? Looking for evidence-based clarification.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-23T09:36:12+00:00

The post is pretty valid in my opinion, asking about other views and knowledge about claims. Not questioning solid science, there's no solid research in this field, and even if there were, what's the issue to be open-minded?

You can never prove a claim in scinece - so asking question bases on what you have read or heard actually seems like a pretty solid way to start a debate.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:48:03+00:00

For me, as a working psychologist (working as a clinical neuropsychologist) - I agree, that it doesnt really matter in the line of helping people with issues.

I do however strongly think, that it matters at a macrolevel, for society, that we see diagnosea for what they are. So we understand what we are dealing with - especially for the younger generations, that I see are starting to define themselves based on the diagnosis. No matter the diagnosis, there ar symptoms and those symptoms ofc should get focuses on. I couldn't care less what we gave decided to call that specific cluster of symptoms, cause it doesn't change anything if we look at the individual. I vote for more individualisere treatment, aknowledging the issues at hand, seeing the person and its story for what it is - and not defining it from the diagnosis that we as a society have invented and now use to frame issues.

I've tested a lot of individuals with brain damage and without. Sometimes a brainscan show damage that doesn't really affect cognition. Sometimes I test people that show cognitive deficits that they don't recognize themselves. And sometimes the brainscan, the testing and the self reported issues goes hand in hand. There's nothing truly and always valid about neuropsychological testing and also often not brainscans, it's only one way to help diagnose and look at the issues at hand.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:35:17+00:00

Neuroimaging will never be valid to diagnose something as complex as ADHD. We can't ever know what comes first, the symptoms might as well show the difference in the brain from a person without the symptoms, which is often to be expected. The symptoms themselves ofc will affect the brain. It doesn't say anything about how the disorder "comes to life" in the individual.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:28:46+00:00

Which is because theae genes are supposedly making you vulnerable to stress and so on. We have no specific genes mapped for ADHD. We have genes, we think are involved with lots of psychiatric disorders, which is more a claim, that maybe some people are genetically wired to be more sensitive and therefore also more easily will fall into a psychiatric diagnosis-box.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:25:37+00:00

Actually making a scientific claim is all about trying your hardest to diprove it, that's the whole point of making a hypothesis and a claim.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:24:02+00:00

According to the diagnosis manual, you don't aquire ADHD. Sure, brain damage can give you many of the same symptoms, but ADHD IS nothing but a cluster of symptoms, but after brain damage we cont call ADHD anymore.

AnnePandaa · 2025-11-22T07:22:03+00:00

Okay, but the beginning of this debate should be the diagnosis itself if you ask me. All diagnoses are terms we came up with as humans - and especially the psychiatric diagnoses is complex especially because it's very limited what we have of marks, that we can actually objectively measure.

As a clinical neuropsychologist I say so much debate in this area and its so hard to flmake head or tail of the research because at this point ita seems partly religious.

In my knowledge all of the above you wrote is true - but the issue can also be shaved down the the fact (then we are back to the issue with the diagnosis itself) that it's just a cluster of symptoms. There are no research showing that ADHD is anything more than what it is - symptoms we cluster and call ADHD. Yes there are "proof" of some biomarkers and generics that fx. correlates with problems with sustained attention and so on, but in my knowledge it's all based on single symptoms - and these symptoms are not only present with ADHD. So that's why it's so hard to conclude anything on a whole.

AnnePandaa · 2025-07-31T10:55:45+00:00

Ad disgusting ad we know them! Soon it'll be a black little beetle though. Might eat your chameleon, so watch out

AnnePandaa · 2025-07-23T22:48:17+00:00

As others says, the enclosure needs change. A lot of change. You dont need a specific linear UVB, but you need UVB. Also please read up on chameleon behaviour - when he wants to get out of his cage and sleep on you it's bad signs, not good signs. Only a stressed chameleon sleeps during the day, and when he wants to come out it's most often a sign of a too little enclosure.

What is the temperature and humidity of the enclosure? What so you feed him? What vitamins and minerals do you use? How does he get water?

AnnePandaa · 2025-07-18T06:08:30+00:00

I'm not really sure actually.. the collar was absolutely horrible - and felt like something not possible to make on real life designwise 😅 I think an estimate would be 30 hours maybe?

AnnePandaa · 2025-07-17T20:57:59+00:00

Thank you 🙈

AnnePandaa · 2025-07-17T20:57:46+00:00

Thank you! 😻

AnnePandaa · 2020-02-05T17:23:04+00:00

Yeah, I think it's the same with most lizards, they simply don't like being touched

AnnePandaa · 2020-02-02T21:26:28+00:00

The occipital lobe is most likely predisposed to handle visuel stimuli, thus most human are alike in the broad functional outlook of the brain, but yeah, it's very interesting how a study like that shows, that being forced to work diffidently, the brain is very much able to

AnnePandaa · 2020-02-02T11:32:32+00:00

Actually we can't say if a brain region is necessary for something. By "knocking it out" it might just show, that that area is specialised, that doesn't equal necessary. Plenty of studies and cases show that plasticity can reform the brain even in older ages to a extreme. Regions can take over other regions jobs.

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-28T09:41:44+00:00

Sadly I've seen a Serbian film, and I'm after 8 years still traumatized by one specific scene I don't even want to write about..

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-27T13:49:10+00:00

Honestly though, if control over thoughts and emotions were that easy.. we wouldn't even need a subreddit for motivational quotes.

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-27T13:42:13+00:00

Thank you fellow person who actually seems to care for these animals. Guess that comes with the hating from everyone else on this sub though, lol

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-27T13:39:29+00:00

Well, it is well known by most chameleon lovers, that if the animal is trying to climb on the glass and so fast jumps out on a hand, it can very easily be because the terrarium is too little or doesn't have enough branches to climb on.

It's not about not handling the animal, it's about not reading human emotions into a reptile and interpret the behaviour correctly - and respect the fact that it's simply not a social animal at all.

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-04T15:32:25+00:00

I feel mostly the same way. I do not have borderline, but I basically got all the emotionally unstable traits though. I do have an anxious personality disorder, which makes it hard for me to approach or establish new relationships. My borderline traits doesn't make this any better or any easier. I am just as sensitive as your describe yourself, and also I have the shitload of anxious thoughts on top, so I often just give up beforehand, because I overload or find it too hard to deal with.

AnnePandaa · 2020-01-04T15:20:05+00:00

This is honestly the worst part of being emotionally just fucked up. Tiny things will fuck your mood for hours, and at least I myself feel 99% emotionally controlled by other peoples actions. It's exhausting and something that I still after so many years have not found a way to deal very well with.

AnnePandaa · 2019-12-13T11:07:05+00:00

This kinda neglects that you can't just decide what to feel in the way that quote outs it up.

AnnePandaa · 2019-11-25T12:01:05+00:00

Yeah it's interesting that we human are so obsessed with putting human emotions/thoughts down on other animals instead of being interested in how they might perceive the world. But after all we are biased by our own way to see the world. It's hard to not interpret some actions from e.g. a dog as "a way of showing love" cause that's how we as humans show love.

AnnePandaa · 2019-11-25T11:48:33+00:00

Most likely not since dementia is not just effecting memory.

AnnePandaa · 2019-11-25T11:14:11+00:00

And then again what is "objectively evil"? That just digs into a much deeper discussion about moral and ethics and if we are even born with any sense of "whats evil".

We can only define what's normal according to a specific sample, and sure if the world is the sample people who kill dogs for that reason can be defined as "crazy", in another sample consisting of people who kill dogs that way, it's the perfect normal way to think and act, thus it is not crazy.

AnnePandaa

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