I've noticed that some adults ADHD that I know happened to unmask (including to themselves) their bi. or homo. orientation only after starting taking meds. Mostly bi. tho
Thank you for another insightful video Dr Kruse! As for other topics, I'd really appreciate a video about the overlap between ADHD and me/cfs as diagnosed by specialists, i.e. using the Canadian (2003) or International (2013) Consensus Criteria (now mostly for research) or the 2015 CDC clinical criteria, further refined in a 2021 Mayo Clinic journal article. Specifically _not_ including studies using the 1984 Oxford/Fukoda criteria or similar (still used as the only diagnostic criteria by some researchers but doesn't require PEM and so may well include all sorts of other unspecified conditions and not necessarily people with me/cfs as per the current specialist criteria). Meta analyses tend to include all of the above and so can be somewhat meaningless. Also, both me/cfs and ADHD are vastly under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed (sometimes as each other), particularly in the same demographic of 35-55 year old women. Both ADHD and me/cfs have a relatively high co-morbidity with joint hypermobility and while anyone can end up with a condition often triggered by viral or bacterial infection, there are some seemingly reliable (i.e. not from psychiatrists, sorry, nothing personal, as you're no doubt aware you simply have many, many colleagues who have caused a lot of harm...) clinical and anecdotal accounts which indicate that a very high percentage of those with me/cfs used to be ADHD-ish type people: adventurous, outgoing, pushing through rather than resting and so on. I haven't had much success locating studies that look specifically at this overlap/co-morbidity. Which is not surprising, given the history of how some psychiatrists completely derailed me/cfs research for decades and how most of the actual me/cfs specialists come from internal medicine, cardiology and neurology. Still, this really does seem like something worth exploring, particularly in terms of whether (undiagnosed/untreated) ADHD is a significant risk factor for developing me/cfs. You seem very knowledgeable about all sorts of conditions, but in case you want to look into this and aren't completely sure where to start, the international (mostly US) ME/CFS Clinician Coalition, the Bateman-Horne Center (leading US specialist clinic) and the UK site "Doctors with ME" all have some great sections full of resources for other doctors who aren't specialists in me/cfs.
wow. cause i am in the closet for how many years now..ticking each box, ahem, and still a closeted pillow biter. this is very cool info. thank you for sharing.
Yes. My GayDHD is strong.
I've noticed that some adults ADHD that I know happened to unmask (including to themselves) their bi. or homo. orientation only after starting taking meds. Mostly bi. tho
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Thank you for another insightful video Dr Kruse!
As for other topics, I'd really appreciate a video about the overlap between ADHD and me/cfs as diagnosed by specialists, i.e. using the Canadian (2003) or International (2013) Consensus Criteria (now mostly for research) or the 2015 CDC clinical criteria, further refined in a 2021 Mayo Clinic journal article. Specifically _not_ including studies using the 1984 Oxford/Fukoda criteria or similar (still used as the only diagnostic criteria by some researchers but doesn't require PEM and so may well include all sorts of other unspecified conditions and not necessarily people with me/cfs as per the current specialist criteria).
Meta analyses tend to include all of the above and so can be somewhat meaningless. Also, both me/cfs and ADHD are vastly under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed (sometimes as each other), particularly in the same demographic of 35-55 year old women. Both ADHD and me/cfs have a relatively high co-morbidity with joint hypermobility and while anyone can end up with a condition often triggered by viral or bacterial infection, there are some seemingly reliable (i.e. not from psychiatrists, sorry, nothing personal, as you're no doubt aware you simply have many, many colleagues who have caused a lot of harm...) clinical and anecdotal accounts which indicate that a very high percentage of those with me/cfs used to be ADHD-ish type people: adventurous, outgoing, pushing through rather than resting and so on.
I haven't had much success locating studies that look specifically at this overlap/co-morbidity. Which is not surprising, given the history of how some psychiatrists completely derailed me/cfs research for decades and how most of the actual me/cfs specialists come from internal medicine, cardiology and neurology. Still, this really does seem like something worth exploring, particularly in terms of whether (undiagnosed/untreated) ADHD is a significant risk factor for developing me/cfs.
You seem very knowledgeable about all sorts of conditions, but in case you want to look into this and aren't completely sure where to start, the international (mostly US) ME/CFS Clinician Coalition, the Bateman-Horne Center (leading US specialist clinic) and the UK site "Doctors with ME" all have some great sections full of resources for other doctors who aren't specialists in me/cfs.
If I can find any solid research, this would be a good topic.
@ Sounds great! Also, I made a typo, the Fukoda criteria are from 1994, not 84 (also known as the CDC 1994 criteria).
wow. cause i am in the closet for how many years now..ticking each box, ahem, and still a closeted pillow biter. this is very cool info. thank you for sharing.