Nearly One Million Children in U.S. Potentially Misdiagnosed With ADHD, Study Finds

The system has been set up to give incentives to everyone for such diagnoses. The schools get more money for every diagnosed child, the psych lobby gets more influence in the schools when they have more diagnosed children, the parents get the comfort of knowing that their child gets tons of extra (often 1-on-1) attention and other grade-boosting perks (extra time on tests, etc). The children themselves have to deal with the stigma of having a diagnosis... but then again, EVERY child gets teased about SOMETHING, and with ever-increasing numbers of diagnosed students, the stigma diminishes.

It is entirely predictable that ADHD would get hyper-diagnosed. Failure to do so would hurt the bottom line of almost everyone involved.

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