If I don’t write this now, I will never get it done. If I do write it now I won’t get something else done. It’s a dilemma and it may also be a symptom of adult ADHD. However, although it’s fashionable for media personalities to have adult ADHD, it’s less fashionable for us ordinary folk, so I’m not going to worry about it. Though they idea I might be able to take a pill and become organised is attractive.
However, I have to be careful of wanting a bright and shiny (and fashionable) affliction, when I am merely lazy and disorganised (the symptoms are much the same) and am looking for a convenient excuse. It’s easy to jump on a bandwagon.
Soda bread
It used to be the same on the farm – people in baking classes claiming to be suffering from coeliac disease or gluten intolerance. When I read up on it I found that many cases were self-diagnosed and were simply Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I have IBS. It was originally caused, according to my doctor, by life as a salesman – stress, cigarettes and irregular meals. He told me that if I gave up smoking my stress levels may rise so there wasn’t much he could do for me.
So I became an antique dealer. Less stress, regular meals – it went away. It comes back from time to time if I have too much cheese but over the years even this hasn’t been a problem.
Wheatsheaf Loaf
I sympathise with anyone who has coeliac disease or gluten intolerance. I have sympathy for people who have IBS. It can be debilitating. But I have no sympathy with people who claim to have a problem with gluten, and disrupt an entire class with claims of gluten intolerance, when they don’t actually have it. If you have a problem with gluten you shouldn’t be in a room with flour in the air. Hence my reluctance to jump on a fashionable health bandwagon.
This sort of thing may become more prevalent as various health care systems go awry.
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2026/05/controversial-er-takeover-sounds-like-possible-shell-game-judge-says.html
It became blurred after a while, but I got the general idea. Our right wing parties want us to move to an American model in healthcare. In the 1930s my grandfather owed more than a year’s wages to the doctor keeping one of my dad’s brothers alive.
Our model is not one to follow.
I hope not, but some people (mainly ones with money) think it is.
All this self-diagnosis is very tedious. I was going to write nonsense instead of tedious but got ahead of myself and typed diagnonsense – which was quite apt really. My daughters are experts in searching on the internet and finding illnesses or disorders they believe they have. My younger daughter managed to get a hospital appointment and was asked to explain what was troubling her. She began by saying what she ‘had’ and was reproved and was told to talk about symptoms only. I have enough things the matter with me without wishing for more.
Everyone appears to have ADHD, Autism or AuDHD. I suppose if one does have these disorders it explains such a lot. If one doesn’t have them there is then no excuse for all the mistakes and stupidity one is prone to.
I believe one of the terms for this is “cyberchondria”. It is very easy, particularly when so many symptoms are the same. It’s much more attractive to have a condition than to admit to being old or untidy. 🙂
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It is good to have a diagnosis – you may have to wear down your GP to get the one you want
I am currently sorting out a few other things. Now I am retired I have decided I should sort out all my niggling problems. 🙂
I’ve come to the conclusion that being a male and having ADHD is the same thing.
I have to admit that the list of symptoms fits your hypothesis. 🙂
Sound observations! It’s very odd when people jump on the bandwagon just for the heck of it. It seems as though there are enough problems in life without making a few up.
The circles I move in don’t seem to contain people with such conditions. It was only when we started running the project on the farm that we met a number of people with genuine health conditions. I presume their interest in self-managing their conditions extended to food so that was why we met them. The others just seemed to accumulate.
Same goes for the ADHD, there seems to have been a number of comedians either writing books or talking about their struggles.
the “health” trends people jump.on is ridiculous