The ADHD 'De-diagnosis’ Debate: Experts Say People Are Pathologising Normal Life | Charlotte Lytton
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“Everyone’s just self-diagnosing in the meantime and believing they have a condition that, maybe, they just don’t.” With one in five people now classified with a mental health disorder, experts and politicians are questioning whether social media self-diagnosis is pathologising normal life, says Sunday Times writer Charlotte Lytton. Charlotte Lytton was speaking to Rosie Wright and Nick Wallis on Times Radio Breakfast. Listen live every Friday-Sunday on Times Radio. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/
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