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ADHD's Link to Chronic Pain Is Getting Harder for Clinicians to Ignore

A June 14, 2026 burst of fresh reporting pushed an old blind spot back into view: adults with ADHD traits keep showing up disproportionately in chronic-pain research, and the best new evidence suggests the overlap may run through anxiety, depression and catastrophic pain thinking as much as through pain itself.

Tyler ReynoldsJun 14, 20265 min