And it’s typical of the Labour right to be coalescing around Streeting, a Red Tory who’s probably the only candidate who’d be even worse as PM than Starmer. All the non-delivery, more of a corporate stooge, plus a large measure of belligerence. Kiss the NHS goodbye if Streeting ever gets into Downing Street.
Streeting is fucking awful. He’s super Christian, and consistently makes terrible faith based decisions - he’s anti trans and anti right to die - while pretending he’s making them for non religious reasons.
He’s even talked about how he was brought up to be a self-hating gay person because of his faith. Apparently he did just enough therapy to realize his church was wrong about gay people, but he can’t extend the same awareness to trans issues.
Also, as a neurodiverse person, I can’t deal with his calling ADHD a “mental health issue” (it’s a neurodevelopmental disorder) and banging on about it being over-diagnosed (experts agree it’s slightly under-diagnosed).
Not that he should be minimising mental health problems anyway. It’s so obvious that it’s designed to demonise more groups of sick and disabled people to make cuts more palatable. Just like Iain Duncan Smith tried to do with “bad backs”. 🙄
experts agree it’s slightly under-diagnosed
Do you have references of that? It would be very valuable in some conversations I’m having.
I think there might be less of a consensus than I first thought (oops 🙈), but it is backed up by a literal NHS report from June. Emphasis my own:
England and the rest of the UK have much lower service recognition and treatment rates of ADHD diagnosis compared with other European countries (e.g. Norway, Denmark, Spain). Recent data show a very high level of under-recognition and under-treatment of strictly diagnosed ADHD, with significant inequalities in access to care (e.g. minority groups). […] There is also concern by some about potential over-medicalisation and over-diagnosis and a lack of regulation of ADHD service providers as this has been reported in some parts of the world. Some also raise concerns about ADHD self-diagnosis based on information from social media. However, currently there is no good evidence on what percentage of those waiting to see a clinician have self-diagnosed ADHD using social media and eventually meet or do not meet ADHD diagnostic criteria after a high-quality assessment. We only know currently that in England, recognised rates of ADHD are lower than the expected prevalence of ADHD. https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/report-of-the-independent-adhd-taskforce-part-1
I also found this:
Reports indicate that ADHD affects 2.5%–5% of adults in the general population […] However, fewer than 20% of adults with ADHD are currently diagnosed and/or treated by psychiatrists. Some adults with ADHD will have received a diagnosis in childhood, although some will no longer be in contact with psychiatric services and will not have access to treatment. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4195639
Both sources have a list of references. Hope they help! 👍
Yes it does help, thanks a lot! I’ll dig into these and their sources. 🙌
