What role should psychiatry play in diagnosing and treating ADHD?

In this essay, I draw on anthropology’s claim that all medical systems are cultural systems to argue that psychiatric power over human behaviour should be carefully monitored. The case of ADHD is particularly embedded within the creation of psychiatric drugs and leads us to question the role psychiatry should play in defining this ‘disorder’. The term has now gained social meaning as people reclaim it to describe their realities. How then are we to accurately problematise ADHD? I advocate for the framing of ADHD as enviornmentally-constructed, yet recognise the helpfulness of treatments psychiatry can offer struggling adults.