Just something I have anecdotally noticed occuring with more frequency. Several creators I follow have spoken about being diagnosed with ADHD in recent years, and their experiences with medication like adderall. When I was a kid, ADHD was something only kids had, and was famously overdiagnosed in America as an excuse to get a ton of kids on pills.
Is this just a more recent extension of that? Is it just as simple as big pharma looking for more addicts? I have definitely noticed that my own attention span has been eroded by the 24 hour news cycle and too much screen time, but I'd never think to go to the doctor about it.
Remember when everybody "had glaucoma" so they could get medical pot like a decade ago?
That's what this is, but for adderall. They want an excuse to never have to discipline and control their actions/impulses, and want the "miracle drug" that let's them triple their work productivity so they can laze around for the other 80% of the week.
These are people going in with a diagnosis already picked out, and magically coming out with it. Its not hard to get ADHD, anxiety or depression diagnosed by just framing normal daily stressors right.
And having those labels means they don't have to face the uncomfortable truths about themselves and work on them. They can just say "I have X" and now they are poor victims, you can't be as mean to them, and they can drug themselves into "feeling normal" when they need to. Its a literal perfect grift for someone with no dignity or shame.