A shortage of ADHD medication is leaving some parents in limbo, and they're wondering if they're going to have enough pills to help their children.

Shortage of ADHD medications is in a category of its own.

More than once over the past several months, I have predicted that we would see a reported skyrocket.

We would see a skyrocketing rise of ADHD diagnoses as millions of children are forced to sit and stare at screens all day in lieu of receiving a real education.

That's what I predicted. I think I said it on the show multiple times. I tweeted it.

Now, usually I enjoy saying, I told you so. I don't hate saying. I told you so. I love saying it.

This is not one of the times where I enjoy saying it. This is one of the times where I really do hate saying it, but,

but I told you so. This week, NBC News reported right on schedule that ADHD diagnoses have

skyrocketed during the pandemic. The article by Olivia Solan offers more details, starting with an anecdote. This is what

she reports. It says Susan McLaughlin's 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, was a straight-A student before

the pandemic. Isabella, who lives in a suburb of a suburb of Columbus, Ohio excelled at science

and math and was already getting high school credit for algebra. But when her school shut down in

March and classes shifted to Zoom,

Isabella's grades took a nosedive.

She signed on for her virtual class from a desk piled high with books, papers, and stuffed animals,

and then spent hours trying to clean her room instead of focusing on schoolwork.

She found herself paralyzed by assignments, McLaughlin said.

But she wouldn't tell her teacher over email that she was struggling, as she would have done in person. McLaughlin 53, a mother of three from Delaware, Ohio,

says it was a meltdown after meltdown after meltdown. McLaughlin spent months trying to bring

more structured to Isabella's day by writing lists, schedules, timelines, checkboxes.

But as someone who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder herself a decade ago,

McLaughlin realized that she was seeing the same behaviors in Isabella.

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