Applying labels and diagnoses without understanding the underlying cause may not lead to effective treatment. — Whalespan
Applying labels and diagnoses without understanding the underlying cause may not lead to effective treatment.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“so it may be that child is actually anxious I'll tell you a lot of oppositional behavior in kids is driven by feelings of anxiety and embarrassment it may be the child is impulsive that child lies and argues and yells no quickly because they're impulsive and they have untreated ADHD it could be that child struggles with understanding social contexts and social skills they actually have trouble with their social reciprocity but they're presenting with what looks like oppositional behavior um that child may be sensory overloaded and have challenges processing sensory information”
“the risk is that they can see someone like in my field and they do testing and you give a diagnosis like this child has o like I have kids they come with me to come with a report this child has OD and I'm like okay well what does that mean what are we going to do about it”
“so the why is so so very important um with like again comes back to like how do we create treatment plants and it comes back to again like I said you've met one child with OD you've met one child with OD and OD to me means actually I I don't even know what to do with that I'm like there's no treatment for OD but however if I know if the child has impulsivity I can treat that if the child has social difficulties okay”