Are depression, ADHD, bipolar, etc., real?

Shrinkrap
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:59:52 +0000

Happened to be reading this today; Author is Russell Barkley

[Amazon Online Reader : ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control](http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1593852312/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link)

Check out page 326…

“The last point about flexible, developmentally moving cut-off scores may require some clarification. Let us say for the moment that ADHD represents a 30 percent delay in the development of inhibition, resistance to interferance, and goal-directed persistance. This is the degree of difference between normal, and ADHD individuals that defines that defines ADHD at each age level one wishes to consider…The comparisson must reveal the individual to be 30 percent or more discrepant from normal as one of the diagnostic criteria. Just as maintaining an IQ of 70 is demarcant for mental retardation…”