ting condition. When a provider gives a diagnosis of ADHD following either a brief office visit or therapy session, the diagnosis is frequently inaccurate because these encounters frequently fail to account for things like developmental history, objectivity of deficits reported by patients, or other conditions are are capable of producing the patient's subjective symptoms. In these circumstances, oftentimes the provider or therapist themselves are falling victim to the Barnum Effect by attributing their patient's vague and nonspecific symptoms like brain fog or procrastination uniquely to ADHD when these symptoms are experienced at high rates in the general population.
Ultimately, YOU are the only one with control or responsibility over the healthcare information you consume from the healthcare community. If your healthcare team includes behavioral healthcare providers, it is important that you work with providers who have the training, education, and tools necessary to address your specific concerns. Your behavioral healthcare providers including clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists are tasked with providing you with accurate and specific information about your psychiatric or cognitive functioning, even if that information is not what you want or expect to hear. By educating yourself on how to spot sketchy or misleading information about ADHD or other developmental conditions purveyed on social media and other Internet sources, you are well on your way to being an educated healthcare consumer. It is critical that you get your healthcare information from sources that are designed to provide clinical care - not designed to generate likes, followers, or comments.