What a massive genetics study tells us—and what it still can’t explain Every few years a study comes along that quietly shifts the ground beneath psychiatry. Not with a headline like “We’ve found the ADHD gene” (we haven’t), but with something more unsettling:| What if the way we divide mental health conditions doesn’t match how the brain …
Short-term trials can’t measure long-term change—and people with ADHD pay the price. A new umbrella review in The BMJ tries to answer a deceptively simple question: what actually works for ADHD?Not in theory, not in opinion—but across hundreds of randomised trials and decades of research. The authors analysed 221 re-estimated meta-analyses covering 31 interventions across preschoolers, children, adolescents, and adults. It’s one of the most comprehensive …
Understanding how ADHD identity harms, heals, and helps us make sense of who we are. If you spend any time around critical psychiatry, you’ll know the script:“ADHD as an identity is harmful. It locks people into a sick role, it feeds social media trends, and it turns ordinary struggle into pathology.”It’s a serious concern. And there are real risks …