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You might want to try a little harder if you want to efficiently troll people. But since this might be a good teaching moment for other people, I’ll lay out the reasons why you might be wrong:
First off, Sex Addiction. Here’s the definition for “Addiction”:
“Addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop consuming a chemical, drug, activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm.“
By that definition, the woman in the manga DOES have a definite addiction to sex. She is unable to stop having sex with people despite the significant negative affect it has had on her mental health and physical health.
Now, on whether or not ADHD is “real”. That’s a bit less clearcut, as there are other psychological or neurological disorders that may share or mask the symptoms. Females are less likely to be diagnosed with it, although whether that is due to females being less susceptible or whether the symptoms are expressed differently is unclear. Women were also thought to have been less likely to suffer from heart attacks before the realization that they had different symptoms from men.
As for it “only being a thing in the U.S.”, that’s kind of laughably false. Diagnosis rates may seem the highest in North America, but that’s also where the majority of research has been done (stretching back over 50 years). Similar diagnosis rates are observed in other countries across the world when using the same diagnosis method.
It would be like saying “Cancer is something made by doctors to sell drugs. People in other countries outside of the U.S. almost never get cancer!” No, people all around the world die from cancer all the time. It’s just that in other countries they might not have the same diagnosis ability as we have.
ADHD can be tough to figure out the source of, as there are genetic and environmental factors that play a part. But before you start trying to rewrite the book from the comfort of your computer, you should realize that there has been in-depth research done that has discovered a group of genetic markers that are very commonly found in people with ADHD. There’s very solid proof for its existence.
Just because a young kid has trouble sitting still and paying attention, it doesn’t mean they automatically have ADHD. It’s just like when people say “Oh, I’m so OCD because I like to have the papers on my desk organized in a particular manner.” That’s not what either of those two disorders actually are. There’s a reason psychologist and neurologists have to do lots of training, and why generally you can’t pick up prescription drugs for something you can claim to have.
First off, Sex Addiction. Here’s the definition for “Addiction”:
“Addiction is a psychological and physical inability to stop consuming a chemical, drug, activity, or substance, even though it is causing psychological and physical harm.“
By that definition, the woman in the manga DOES have a definite addiction to sex. She is unable to stop having sex with people despite the significant negative affect it has had on her mental health and physical health.
Now, on whether or not ADHD is “real”. That’s a bit less clearcut, as there are other psychological or neurological disorders that may share or mask the symptoms. Females are less likely to be diagnosed with it, although whether that is due to females being less susceptible or whether the symptoms are expressed differently is unclear. Women were also thought to have been less likely to suffer from heart attacks before the realization that they had different symptoms from men.
As for it “only being a thing in the U.S.”, that’s kind of laughably false. Diagnosis rates may seem the highest in North America, but that’s also where the majority of research has been done (stretching back over 50 years). Similar diagnosis rates are observed in other countries across the world when using the same diagnosis method.
It would be like saying “Cancer is something made by doctors to sell drugs. People in other countries outside of the U.S. almost never get cancer!” No, people all around the world die from cancer all the time. It’s just that in other countries they might not have the same diagnosis ability as we have.
ADHD can be tough to figure out the source of, as there are genetic and environmental factors that play a part. But before you start trying to rewrite the book from the comfort of your computer, you should realize that there has been in-depth research done that has discovered a group of genetic markers that are very commonly found in people with ADHD. There’s very solid proof for its existence.
Just because a young kid has trouble sitting still and paying attention, it doesn’t mean they automatically have ADHD. It’s just like when people say “Oh, I’m so OCD because I like to have the papers on my desk organized in a particular manner.” That’s not what either of those two disorders actually are. There’s a reason psychologist and neurologists have to do lots of training, and why generally you can’t pick up prescription drugs for something you can claim to have.
