Psychology Today | 17.07.2026 23:30
In the last few years, there has been intense media and political focus on the rising numbers of people seeking support and diagnostic services for ADHD. This has been accompanied by a greater number of prescriptions for ADHD medications being issued. Some people now suggest that ADHD is being over-diagnosed, that psychiatrists are overusing diagnostic labels, and that society is over-medicalizing healthy variation. So, has the rate of ADHD really risen? Are we now over-diagnosing ADHD? What does the evidence show?
