https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/adult-adhd-is-the-wild-west-of-psychiatry/ar-AA19RCMo
Orginal source The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/adult-adhd-diagnosis-treatment-adderall-shortage/673719/
Quoting the article Point Blank, America has no standard clinical guidelines for how doctors should diagnose and treat adults with ADHD—a gap the CDC has called a “public health concern.”
As well as Doctors widely assumed that kids would grow out of it eventually.
To paraphrase the next paragraph, the article states that there is no model for diagnosing ADHD in adults and that it is child focused and that it's only a recent phenomenon that adult ADHD is classified by psychology which took place in 2013 with DSM-5, the very same revision that removed Asperger's as a diagnosis of mild autism which was around since the 1940s. This basically pokes holes in the FAA and every psychologist that backs the FAA saying that they did not move the goal posts when in fact they actually did.
Further down the article it says that it relies on an adult to self-report which is not exactly reliable. Yet the FAA feels if you don't mention if your tag is a child decades ago it's considered perjury, that is something that needs to change.
This is especially apparent with since there is no consistency in clinicians or approach of diagnosis and the lack of guidance in the DSM basically shows that the FAA stance is an unconstitutional discriminatory catch-all. And with the Caselaw of State of Ohio V Grate, stating John Mathew Fabian does not follow the DSM with his diagnoses but the article seems to indicate he's not an isolated bad apple and most mental health clinicians are pulling diagnoses out of their asses. The article further what to call the approach of tagging people with adult ADHD chaotic at best and the title of the article is titled, Adult ADHD is the Wild Wild West of Psychiatry. The article further stated many people try to say they have ADHD as just an excuse to be prescribed amphetamines.
Other publications have called into question the validity of the DSM https://ghaemi.substack.com/p/why-dsm-is-mostly-false Points out each edition of the DSM ends up throwing out most of the previous editors information and that it's largely written as opinion based, not very scientific on how it comes up with answers, and its largely political about what makes it in each edition of the DSM and what is now considered invalid.
This article in the NIH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26772207/ focuses on the controversies of the DSM V the latest primary edition of the DSM and how it leads to "false possitives" which is the politically correct way of stating misdiagnosis of mental disorders in people that in reality do not have any mental disorders.
This article is Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rethinking-mental-health/201207/the-great-dsm-hoax was a warning that most people are starting to see through the mental health industry's BS, especially with it ruining people's lives to financially benefit these quacks.
This article in the NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127747/ calls clinical research in psychology irrelevant since DSM III was published in 1980 because the DSM is no longer based on science if it ever really was and it's idology that has since been published in the DSM. And if it's not in the DSM, to these quacks its considered hearsay.