Impulse Spending or Risky Decisions: Adults with ADHD may make sudden purchases or jump into commitments without thinking through the consequences. This need for quick stimulation often drives these actions. Relationship Challenges: ADHD can strain relationships with forgetfulness, missing social cues, or...
A friend, a relative, or even looking into support groups with other people who have ADD. Hope this gives you a good idea of some of the work that you can do in order to contain any of the shopping impulses you described. The next steps should be to be matched with a therapist so ...
social awkwardness and my mean or thoughtless comments that I thought to think off my ADHD...I mean, I have always known that I never fully grew out of it but...what exactly was it like in adults? I
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders where individual exhibits significant problems with attention span, impulse control, and activity levels really relative to similarly aged peers in school settings. There have been many studies to support individuals diagn...
[TD] children to apply previously learned knowledge when reward was omitted. They interpreted this as support for the DTD prediction of faster extinction in ADHD. Added to this, Sali and colleagues (Sali et al.2018) provide preliminary evidence of faster extinction of prior learning in children ...
reported in more than half of 24 adults treated with psychostimulants (though I don't think anyone can say for sure whether or not the psychostimulants caused the brain atrophy the possible link should make prescribers, teachers and parents who are fans of Ritalin stop and think for a ...
Neuropsychological deficits have been described for adults with OCD in the domain of executive functions, especially impaired inhibition, impaired control of interference/conflict, diminished cognitive flexibility in switching, and cognitive alternation tasks (Abbruzzese et al.1997; Aycicegi et al.2003; ...
Provide access to a counselor or trusted adult for support. Allow participation in a peer mentoring or buddy system. Implement social skills training or groups. Provide positive and constructive feedback privately. Develop a strategy for managing frustration or outbursts. ...
Another difference between samples of children and adults may be the comorbidity profile. Although comorbidity is the rule rather than the exception in both groups of patients, the prevalence of specific comorbid disorders may differ. This issue is further discussed below. Despite an impressive number...
of which there are many. The ADHD patient community has gotten really into this and pushed it in a lot of support groups and patient communities and so on, where it is repeated uncritically as “an important ADHD feature psychiatrists often forget about”. But the genesis is just Dr. Dodso...