Who Would You Expect to Know More About ADD, Someone That “Works in a Mental Health Clinic” or Someone Who….
Question by 2010 FYRE & REIGN: Who would you expect to know more about ADD, someone that “works in a mental health clinic” or someone who….
Suffers from ADD
What’s your rationale?
Please don’t worry, I’m not needing a referral. This question was inspired by some asker who threw out a comment about how they know so much about ADD because they work in a mental health clinic and my first thought was “So, what? Are you the janitor or do you answer the phones?”
Best answer:
Answer by msp!
the one with the ADD…
first hand allll the way + the whole
degree thing adds to my opinion.
Answer by zath
I think the person that has ADD and a psychology degree would definitely know more about ADD.
For one thing, a “mental health clinic” sounds like a place where people with conditions that have the propensity to become urgent would be more likely to go? Like perhaps bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other sever dissociative and mood disorders?
ADD doesn’t usually need to be dealt with so much in clinics, it’s dealt with more by teachers and school faculty and sometimes employers who need to make acomadations for people with ADD. Unless the person who works in the clinic is the actual doctor there I wouldn’t really expect them to know a great deal about it.
But, I know from experience that even very basic college psychology classes go into great detail with regards to ADD. I also know from experience that when one has a condition then tend to learn a lot about it, from 1)doctors treating them, 2)research they do on their own 3) First hand experience! They have the condition after all, who could possibly speak with more authority on it!?
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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