Studies from Norway and the US show results fitting this one https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-021-03223-0 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2581455/

I recently started using beaverhabits https://github.com/daya0576/beaverhabits/ for its simplicity but obviously I love gamification.

A few things I noticed though: * I'd love to add a task to a future date. * A flag on (future) tasks to notify when I ought to start them * Please pre-fill the minutes with 00 * The icons selection for the profiles is a bit boring. Why not just a search across whatever icon font (unicode?) you use? * Is there a dedicated view for just the profile without the noise around it? * There's a little animation that moves a task up when I hover it on desktop, is that by design?

Many get (mis-)diagnosed with depression where the meds are much less easy and effective compared to ADHD. Un-diagnosed ADHD often leads to self-medication with alcohol or drugs, two things with very adverse side-effects even though one of them is legal. Studies show that treating ADHD with medication does lower the risk of substance abuse: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4147667/

Btw, there are no indications that ADHD medication has a positive long-term effect in non-medical use. If you can already focus your mind at the things before you without ADHD medication then you'd only waste your money if you took meds.

PS: Don't call me Shirley

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

Both ADHD and autism have genetic causes in 80% of cases and run in families, not measuring genetic factors makes this whole study a waste of time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

Russ Barkley did a video three weeks ago on I guess that study (or meta study) and it's not just the likely increased pain in mothers with ADHS but as soon as you take in a control group like siblings the correlation just vanishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGn4j6QTiw

Even if those services had some access protection, I simply must assume that the service has some security leak that allows unauthorized access and the first line of defense against that is not having it on the public internet.

There is of course an In Our Time episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029qh3

The study only looks at the 10 +- weekdays around the last of the month, not the whole year. I'm certain there are other spikes. I'd like to argue that the day being something of a semi-holiday it might simply be easier to get an doctor's appointment that fits both the child and the parent schedule. It is also far enough into the school year for problems in the child's behaviour to show up and be referred to a doctor. Lastly, it's the last day of the month and with all admin being weird, it might even be that the data from the doctors is sloppy and earlier appointments get finished on the 31st for no other reason than finishing the month.

A few years of work (10k edits) and a few years of dwindling participation on my side someone noticed that quite a few of those early admins never faced a vote at all. The process had re-elections when 25 wikipedians asked for a vote, took them almost three weeks, I got that treatment as well in 2009. Indeed someone had enough time to dig through and find a discussion where I wasn't the nicest person (at the same time writing and discussing on Wikipedia help me a lot to develop a healthy social skill). Well, I didn't use the admin rights anymore so I rather resigned before someone dug even deeper ;)

For security reasons those admin rights should be time limited anyways.

It's quite specific (17-yr-old boys) but I couldn't find a source for the ~25%. The CDC[1] writes it's 15% for boys (3-17 yrs old). Across all ADHD kids, 30% didn't receive medication or behaviour treatment anyways (a percentage that's risen since 2016): Where's the over-medication?

When I got started with my own diagnosis, a good friend of mine was very skeptical, like "everyone's getting their label and mental illness". Intelligent guy, philosopher with no pressure to do any work at all. It took him some time, research and self-reflection to face the diagnosis (he went to the same specialist and the tests are very thorough) and well... I guess it's true: As someone with ADHD I do have a lot of friends with the same condition, almost shocking but also understandable once you think about the effects on social interactions that ADHD bring.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/adhd/data/index.html

There's so much more that the individual can do, but they need a group around them for support and, to be blunt, monitoring. The system needs to improve (I refuse to use "change") and with how this whole manosphere shit is influencing our boys and teens, it needs some fixing fast. Am I the only one missing stoicism and clemency as I currently watch Adolescence?