From Felitti and Anda’s research, I was beginning to understand that the prognosis of toxic stress, the long-term risks that my patients faced, looked very different from run-of-the-mill ADHD. We have a ways to go before we fully understand whether the behavioral symptoms of toxic stress represent a totally different diagnosis. Part of the problem has been that, unlike ADHD, the diagnosis of toxic stress doesn’t yet exist in the medical literature.
