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ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

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  1. tsoukase · · focus · HN ↗
    Attention deficit is a symptom that is caused by almost any mental and somatic disease. ADHD is a diagnosis after any other disease is thoroughly excluded and therefore is much less common than the symptom.

    Any mental issue, symptom or disease lie on a spectrum, in terms of quality and severity. Psychiatric diagnoses are overlapping in more than 50% often making a single diagnosis incomplete.

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