Fifty-two percent of the top-performing TikTok videos about ADHD contain misinformation. That is where this conversation starts. But Dr. Judith Joseph, board-certified psychiatrist, principal investigator, and author of High Functioning, quickly moves it somewhere more complicated: what happens when a diagnosis is not a medical conclusion but a way of belonging?

Patients are arriving in the exam room already labeled because an online community offered an identity at a moment when they needed one. Dr. Judith walks through the Tourette's uptick she observed in post-pandemic adolescents, the adult women grieving years of missed ADHD diagnoses, and the stimulant shortage she sees as a downstream consequence of over-prescription driven by online self-diagnosis.

Fifty-two percent of the top-performing TikTok videos about ADHD contain misinformation. That is where this conversation starts. But Dr. Judith Joseph, board-certified psychiatrist, principal investigator, and author of&nbsp;High Functioning, quickly moves it somewhere more complicated: what happens when a diagnosis is not a medical conclusion but a way of belonging?
Patients are arriving in the exam room already labeled because an online community offered an identity at a moment when they needed one. Dr. Judith walks through the Tourette's uptick she observed in post-pandemic adolescents, the adult women grieving years of missed ADHD diagnoses, and the stimulant shortage she sees as a downstream consequence of over-prescription driven by online self-diagnosis.

Every misdiagnosis–or missed diagnosis–has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often there. The question is why no one connected them.

From systemic biases where a woman's chronic pain is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best. 

The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed — and what it costs when we aren’t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

Every misdiagnosis&ndash;or missed diagnosis&ndash;has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often there. The question is why no one connected them.
From systemic biases where a woman's chronic pain is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best.&nbsp;
The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed &mdash; and what it costs when we aren&rsquo;t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Diagnosis or Identity? Dr. Judith Joseph on Social Media, Self-Diagnosis, and Loneliness

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