How Much Do Federal Liberals, NDP, Conservatives And Greens Care About ADHD?

There will likely be a Canadian federal election called tomorrow. I’m a political science major whose hobby is politics. I had to get a separate politics twitter account @pqpolitics because I was putting so much politics on my ADHD twitter account @petequily. So being the curious type, I did site search in Google for ADHD on each of the websites of Canada’s 4 main federal parties, Liberals, NDP, Conservatives and Greens to see how often they mentioned the word ADHD in their websites. Anyone can do #PretendingToCare about Mental Health, but what matters is policy. What are their actual policies on the biggest mental health condition in kids, ADHD? 8-10% of kids, 5% of adults have ADHD. Generic Mental Health policies, resources, money or statements don’t matter much on ADHD. Why? Many doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists are not properly trained on ADHD especially in Canada and so they often underdiagnosis us, misdiagnose us with depression or anxiety/both ( Undetected ADHD was present in 34% of Treatment Resistant Depression patients ), or the smallest amount, but the most media attention, overdiagnose us. ALL 3 require Mandatory CME Courses On ADHD for doctors and psychiatrists & CE ones for psychologists by provincial governments. If you have ADHD please explain to your MLA’s and reporters why. If you don’t have ADHD see the economic and social costs YOU are paying because governments discrimination against our human rights. By not proper...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Politics ADHD related Source Type: blogs