Reviews

ADHD Does Not Exist: The Truth about Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder by Richard Saul

cora273's review

5.0

This book was awesome, interesting and excellent. It is not stating that attention deficit and hyperactivity do not exist; It is saying that they are probably the symptom of a different issue (not ADHD). For example, vision problems can often include the same symptoms that you'd see with ADHD but if you treat ADHD with medication, you will not be taking care of the underlying issue (the vision problem). There are many issues/syndromes that contain attention problems and/or hyperactivity and can mimic ADHD and are often misdiagnosed as ADHD. This book breaks it all down into terms that are easy to understand and includes what to look for as well as how to treat each issue/syndrome. Each chapter includes a story of a real patient. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has been diagnosed with ADHD/ADD or knows someone who has been diagnosed or if you're just interesting in reading about disorders, this book is perfect for you!

earlgreybooks's review

3.0

I have a lot of thoughts about this book—most of which probably don't make sense. I've never been diagnose with ADHD, nor has anyone in my family, but I picked this up because I was hoping it would be something like Neurotribes (which I'm also currently reading) is turning out to be. Instead, I got this mess.

I feel like this was just one big bragging session so that Saul could be like 'look at me, helping all these patients'. Yes, well done, I'm happy for you. His apparent amazing doctor skills aside, maybe this would have been more persuasive if he wasn't just repeating the same thing over and over again. I swear, if I ever hear the words 'a treatment delayed is a treatment denied' again I might just punch a wall.

Okay, I need to step away from the review box before I get even more frustrated. Just, save yourselves.