Having ADHD often means you struggle with the ability to set limits on your behavior (like eating). What’s more, ADHD often lowers your level of dopamine, the hormone involved in your brain’s pleasure center. Gorging on food is a way to temporarily raise your dopamine levels and get tha...
ADHD is more commonthan doctors may have previously believed, according to new statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (C.D.C). Thereport, released in November of 2013, shows that up to 11 percent of children aged 4-17 have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder...
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She is director of financial planning at Planning Across the Spectrum, which provides financial services to neurodiverse folks and people with disabilities. “I find that neurodiverse people tend to have similar difficulties to everybody else, but in different ways," she said. “For example, ...
When you’re diagnosed with a condition like ADHD, it can be hard to know how to talk about it. People can have many different ideas about what support means, and it helps if you can explain exactly what you need from them. One of the best ways to get comfortable and confident about...
Stephen Hinshaw, a distinguished professor of psychology at theUniversity of California, Berkeleyand author of the forthcoming "Straight Talk about ADHD in Girls,"wrote in an email that people with ADHD are also likely to experience something called "hyperfocus," which is the opposite of inattention...
“Some experts argue that young people’s use of social media is adding to their depression; others that their depression leaves them so uninterested in other activities that they turn to social media by default. [Our] research suggests a third possibility: that many young people who are experi...
There are many myths about the potential causes of ADHD that have been proven false. These include eating large amounts of sugar, watching too much television, as well as experiencing poverty or turmoil in the family. Such factors may worsen symptoms of ADHD, but don'...
2) After this article was written, ADD was reclassified in the DSM-V as a combination of different variants or varieties. ADHD (with the H), is the primarily-hyperactive variant. Many people have a primarily-inattentive variant whose 'superpower' is hyperfocus (the ability to focus your atte...
There’s a point of saturation where mental fatigue has set in, and you’re just going through the motions. Many people, particularly students, struggle with study hours. How long is enough? A wise man once said, “It’s not only how far, but how well.” You can study for long ...