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[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

It might seem like it, especially for late diagnoses, but I don't think the ratio of individuals with ADHD is increasing.

They are getting hit with an information overload unlike anything previous generations have had to deal with. And, what was possible to cope with earlier in life, now in mid-life, results in a choice of either a mental breakdown from exhaustion, or medication that helps deal with the symptoms.

There are some technological and cultural trends that exasperates the issue, especially short form social media, which I think governments have failed at protecting the younger generation from. It's not like it's an easy thing to fix. Try banning sugar from the sugar addicted children who's sense of identify and self worth is made out of sugar. Not to mention capitalistic forces salivating over how dirt cheap and easy it is to manipulate them en mass.

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