The personal questionnaires, aside from the fact that they're ridiculously easy to game and hardly ever throughly verified, are pointed to answer the crtieria defined by the DSM.
If the DSM isnt what defines ADHD, what is?
The personal questionnaires, aside from the fact that they're ridiculously easy to game and hardly ever throughly verified, are pointed to answer the crtieria defined by the DSM.
If the DSM isnt what defines ADHD, what is?
The DSM is an international expert collection of acknowledged diseases - it just answers briefly the "what is this?" question, nothing more while the medical societies in your respective country implement the actual guidelines on how to diagnose and treat the diseases by using the recent scientific conclusions. So a MD isn't using the DSM to diagnose and treat you - this is a common misconception.
Yes I understand that. My point is all these guidelines and their implementations are based on the definitions of the DSM.