00:00Diagnosis of ADHD is booming, and the internet is full of people passionately talking about its symptoms.
00:06There's loads and loads of famous people, like practically every famous person you've ever heard of.
00:12Ryan Gosling, Will.i.am, Tom Holland, Emma Watson, Simone Biles, Justin Timberlake.
00:18But the current understanding of ADHD, that it's a neurodevelopmental disorder,
00:23meaning that people's brains are wired differently, is not supported by the evidence,
00:27according to some of the most respected experts in the field.
00:31The feelings, the struggles, the experiences are real.
00:34The explanation is false and, I would actually argue, unhelpful.
00:38I've spent the last 25 years researching the history of ADHD.
00:45The disorder is, to a certain extent, a social construction.
00:50I'm past president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
00:53The industry around ADHD, it is about making money at the cost of misery of others.
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