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DR MAX PEMBERTON: I was diagnosed with ADHD even though I know I don't have it. I swallowed the same drug thousands of children take every day... and this is the terrifying effect it had on me. We're getting everything so wrong

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DR MAX PEMBERTON: I was diagnosed with ADHD even though I know I don't have it. I swallowed the same drug thousands of children take every day... and this is the terrifying effect it had on me. We're getting everything so wrong

I've been a psychiatrist for more than 20 years, and in that time I've watched ADHD go from a diagnosis made occasionally, after careful assessment, to one that is demanded and all too readily dispensed.

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