Have ADHD diagnoses increased in the last few years? Between 2000 and 2018, there was a twenty-fold increase in ADHD diagnoses, rising to an almost fifty-fold increase in prescriptions issued to men aged 18-29. Meeting the threshold for diagnosisGetting an ADHD diagnosis isn’t an easy task, and psychiatrists certainly aren’t handing them out like they’re lollipops. ADHD isn’t just being ‘scatterbrained’ or ‘disorganised’: in Andrea’s words, it’s a ‘neurodevelopmental condition rooted in differences in brain structure and function.’ ADHD isn’t just being a little bit ‘scatty’: it’s so much more than that.