Many young adults want to get rid of the neuropsychiatric diagnosis they received as children.
Something SVT Nyheter reported on today, on NPF Day.
- It is more and more common that you come and seek care and want to get rid of a diagnosis, says Ing-Marie Wieselgren, psychiatry coordinator at SKR in SVT's Aktuellt on Monday night.
- In the same way as we have previously had a very great pressure to get a diagnosis, we have now ended up in a situation where they say "I do not want it anymore because it is rather an obstacle now".
But when they were children, they or their parents may have seen it as a great advantage to get the diagnosis for help.
Wants to see increased focus on the individual
When you get older, a diagnosis can instead make it, for example when you want to apply for an education or get a job.
One who has been affected by this is Joel Öberg in Tierp, whose ADHD diagnosis seems to stop him from becoming a part-time firefighter.
Eric Donell is vice chairman of Riksförbundet Attention, an interest group for people with neuropsychiatric disabilities (NPF) such as ADHD and Asperger's syndrome.
He says that it is about two things: that you may feel that it is rubbing somewhere, that it is not who you are, or that it makes it purely practical.
Both think that instead of diagnoses, one should focus on the person.
- We probably want you to judge individually.
If we look at these diagnoses, they are spectrum diagnoses, they can look very different.
We can not lump people together, says Eric Donell.
"The most important thing is to get efforts"
For psychiatric coordinator Ing-Marie Wieselgren, the diagnosis is not something you put on the person but something that is related to the condition.
- And conditions can change.
You can recover from it, you can find strategies that make you actually no longer have these difficulties, and then you do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis like this, then you no longer have it, she says.
- The most important thing is that you get efforts, you do not need a diagnosis.