Is ADHD a bullshit illness?

Ok. So does that mean that the next time someone spouts off about a legal matter I have your permission to tell them they aren't allowed to offer a comment?

Oh, and you still haven't told me where I purported to make a diagnosis.

You can comment all you like. You can just expect to be called out on it. And I'm pretty sure somewhere along the way you have called people out for being wrong legally. Although I don't know how much we discuss UK law on WF.
I pointed out where you attempted to figure out if your coworker's ADHD was "legit" so in fairness not an actual diagnosis but what we would call a rule out. Furthermore, you suggested that Talkalhuno's friend was misdiagnosed and really had Asperger's based on a paragraph she wrote. Both assumptions based on very limited information.

There is a difference between calling someone out and basically implying they've no business speaking on a subject since they don't have a license.

And are you a Doctor? Do you have the legal right to make a diagnosis? Or are you just a Social Worker?

I know Mental Health Professionals in the field I work. I also know only the Doctors can make a diagnosis and order medicine for a patient.

And yes I just implied that if you're not a Doctor then you've no business talking El Chup down.

Just call me VandyZombie.

Reason I ask is because most of the people I know who have ADHD also have some form or tourettes...ranging from mild to fairly major.

I'm a psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral therapy for anxiety and depresssion. I'm a licensed professional counselor. I am able to give diagnosis for mental health treatment, and develop treatment plans. I do it pretty much every day. I am not able to prescibe as I'm not a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse practitioner. I'm not terribly interested in prescribing meds.

So in the end you're just a fancy Social Worker and not a Doctor. Much like Liet is a para-legal and not a lawyer.

Sure. It's just like that. I'm caught.

Mynd you, tøurettes bites Kan be pretty nasti...

You just have to get used to it.

It would seem every idiot in this place with a drivers license is more qualified to comment on traffic flows, patterns, engineering, regulations and policy than me. In much the same way as everyone knows more about the law than el chu.

At the end of the day though, you get a pay check for what you do, the armchair generals get to make a faceless, often baseless opinions on the internet.

* But I suppose thats the whole point of a discussion board.

He swears quite regularly, but it doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

$corp agrees: Liet the 'Tard is a lawyer that doesn't actually practice law.

If you don't practice you ain't.

Didn't make it through the OP.

Got distracted by something more interesting.

The beauty of the sunlight as it bounces off a mirror onto a lovely smooth dome?

You obviously can't tell the difference between speculation and an authorative statement.

Speculation is just that, speculation.

Since I have made not definitve statements in this thread, would you care to tell me exactly what it is that I have gotten wrong thus far?

People don't need to take any interest in the tedious minutiae of your field to know how to fucking drive, nor does being well-versed in it guarantee any kind of skill behind the wheel.

You think that line is a burn. That makes it funny!

Truth be told, compared to your posts, a dog taking a fucking shit is more interesting.

By the way, I heard TBBS is for sale. Why don't you hang out over there, lick Bonz's balls for a while and see if you can buy that board? Either that or go find yourself an ambulance to chase.

(P.S. - I've noticed you are constantly compelled to respond to ever fucking post I ever make. I'm going to start ignoring you more because you're boring and tedious.)

Your "diagnosis" is that you called ADHD a bullshit illness, and then went off and spouted a bunch of ignorant shit about ADHD.

Put your cock away mate. Nobody is bothering to look at it.

This guy does, and I am qualified to make a diagnosis.

BTW here is the cure - works every time.

Works every time? Bullshit.

Chance of you getting a reliable answer to this question on wordforge?
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A guy on the stand today claimed he was mentally ill. When I inquired into what his diagnosis was he said ADHD.

I asked him if he thought he might have something more serious, like bipolar, since he seems to be suicidal lately. He told me he thought ADHD and bipolar were the same illness.

I like cross-examining stupid people.

In my jurisdiction we don't waste our time cross-examining people to see whether or not they they are ill. Either they adduce a detailed medical report or the claim is ignored.

Let's just say it was an issue of the case.

Well, prima facie that should not change what I said.

Obviously I don't know the facts of your case, but my mind immediately goes to the potential competance of a witness who says he is mentally ill, and if the objective of one side is to support this assertion then independant medical evidence would be required.

Conversely, if the objective is to establish that he is not mentally ill then surely the absence of supporting medical evidence is enough to treat him as a mentally competent witness?

That's how it is here anyhow.

I guess if you've been proven wrong on the merits, it's time to argue semantics.

I believe I have this though I have never been diagnosed. When I was a child they called this hyperactivity. Its hard to focus on things that do not hold your attention. I cannot just sit and talk to someone for very long. I feel the need to do something.