Modern Life Promotes Conspiracy Thinking
<p>Buffalo Springfield’s iconic 1960s song, <em>For What It’s Worth</em>, certainly resonates today. Fears of stolen elections, vigilantes arming for a race war, apocalyptic global warming, and intrusions from the surveillance state permeate the country. It might just be a collective fit of pique, but paranoia appears to be peaking in the US right now. Or at least many Americans feel that someone is peeking at them. What’s going on?</p>
<p>At the same time, I’ve been fielding dozens of questions from patients with ADHD who feel that their partners or families are gaslighting them, claiming that they said or did something for which they have no recollection. I’ve also been hearing the mirror situation — spouses of those with ADHD reporting how their mates directly contradicted themselves, denied saying things they had just uttered and were making paranoid accusations.</p>
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