Controversies with diagnosis of adhd

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Technical critiques focus on the difficulties of diagnosis as a practical accomplishment. These include: the language and specificity of the criteria, accurate differentiation from coexisting conditions, and the lack of criteria and guidance for adult diagnosis in particular.
Sociological critiques cover a broad range of issues, including the present gender, class and ethnicity disproportion in diagnosis, the ideological bases of the practice of psychiatry and the allegedly hegemonic practices of the American Psychiatric Association, and the existence and effects of social pressures, overstated reporting by the media and stereotyping.
Validity critiques question the very existence of the disorder and emphasise the institutional and social conditions upon which they claim the diagnosis is contingent.

source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53663/#ch2.s36