Originally posted by Katidyd
http://www.addadhdadvances.com/ODD.html

Like WOW! Imagine how relieved some parents are to be able to medicate their kids to another quack diagnosis.
And I suppose you've a Ph.D in child psychology, had experience in treating children or adults with diagnosed with ADD or ODD, or having been a child or adult diagnosed with same, or have perhaps ever even glanced at the DSM-IV?

If you have, what aspects of ADD and ODD do you feel are overdiagnosed and do you feel that the definitions used by psychologists are basically accurate but overused, or have fundamental flaws?

If not, fuck off you self-righteous arrogant prick and learn something about a field before you criticise it (yeah, that'll be the day).


I quote:

Common behaviors seen in oppositional defiant disorder include:


Losing one’s temper
Arguing with adults
Actively defying requests
Refusing to follow rules
Deliberately annoying other people
Blaming others for one's own mistakes or misbehavior
Being touchy, easily annoyed
Being easily angered, resentful, spiteful, or vindictive.
Speaking harshly, or unkind when upset
Seeking revenge
Having frequent temper tantrums
Of course you leave out the critical point.

The diagnosis of ODD depends opon these behaviors being present to a significantly greater frequency than is normal for a person of their age.

As others have noted, many of the above are frequently noted in teenagers. Only a frequency of these behaviors that is far beyond that normal frequency we would expect would lead to a diagnosis of ODD.

The purpose of the psychological definition of these disorders is not to turn every rebellious teenager into a psych patient, despite what ignorant outsiders may think. It's to identify individuals in which the behavior noted above has reached a degree far beyond what can be considered normal and cannot reasonably be explained by outside circumstances, and is not treatable using means such as changing setting.