Social media has become the go-to place for people when they have medical questions…but that medical advice isn’t always accurate. When it comes to ADHD, new research has found that less than half of the claims found in videos under the ADHD hashtag “match the scientific criteria that form an ADHD diagnosis.” In many cases, symptoms were “oversimplified or overstated” and many times the information given out wasn’t backed by any reliable source or scientific data.
Source: PLOS-One