In this episode: Jen talks about the complex and interesting history of ADHD. The symptoms were recognized as a condition since the 1800’s but was seen as a moral failing in children, it was then recognized as a physiological brain problem in children in the 1900’s, stimulant medications began to be used as treatment in the 1960’s but by the 1970’s there was backlash, and in the 1990’s many organizations and clinicians refused to validate that the emerging diagnosis of Adult ADHD even existed.

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SOURCES USED FOR THIS EPISODE:

The Controversy That Was Adult ADHD (Article) - ADDitude Magazine

The Evolution of ADHD (Article) - ADDitude Magazine

What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t? (Book) - Dr. MIchele Novotni

The History Of ADHD And It’s Treatments (Article) - ADDitude Magazine

The Early History Of ADJD (Video) - Dr. Russell Barkley