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A Clinician’s Response To The Great ADHD Myth
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A prime-time documentary can spark a needed conversation, but it can also blur the line between good questions and bad conclusions. We watched Channel 4’s “The Great ADHD Myth” with interest because concerns about rushed ADHD diagnosis, uneven assessment quality, and careless prescribing deserve daylight. Then the program reached for something much bigger: the suggestion that ADHD may not be a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder. That claim carries an evidential burden the film simply didn’t meet.
We walk through what “where is the evidence?” really means here, and why ADHD…
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