ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a complex brain disorder that impacts approximately 11% of children and almost 5% of adults in the U.S.1ADHD is a developmental impairment of the brain’s executive functions. People with ADHD have trouble with impulse-control, focusing, and org...
What is ADHD? Learn about ADD symptoms in children and adults, diagnosis statistics and guidance, treatment options, and more.
Your child daydreams a lot at school and is easily distracted when they are doing homework or chores. Maybe they fidget constantly. You might wonder if they have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Or is it attention deficit disorder (ADD)? Is there a difference? Not anymore. In...
This style of treatment works best during adolescence and young adulthood. WhileADHD symptomsmight fade over time, your child might still have academic and social problems. Family dysfunction can linger, too. Even when your child is a teen, you’ll still learn high-value parenting techniques. Th...
How to manage ADD medications, set up school accommodations for your child, help your marriage to an ADD/ADHD adult parent children with discipline problems, use alternative treatments, succeed at work, and manage time and money.ADDitude Magazine...
What is the point of having a relationship with someone? If I don’t need to have biological children, what is it I’m so worried about? And while, I’m off on this tangent, though I love children, and think they are cute, realistically having a family seems eons away. Especially as...
Who mightnotbe a good fit for an ADHD video game AsADDitude reported, people with photo-sensitive epilepsy, color blindness or certain physical limitations may not be able to use it. But compared to the laundry list of side effects that may come with ADHD medications, some of which are st...
For a parent of an ADHD child, dealing with refusal to go to school can be more complicated. According to ADDitude magazine, about half of children with ADHD also have a related mental disorder, one of the most notable of which is anxiety. If you go into the conversation anxious, you ...
” It may sound minor, but it’s actually an important distinguisher because the emphasis on theinabilityto focus can cause parents to overlook a main aspect of ADHD: hyper-focus, which is defined byADDitude Magazineas “sustained, intense concentration on a single interest or project for an ...
ADDitude Magazine, Aug 1, 2010. So why did people finally take notice? Because I started writing about something I truly cared about, and friends, if that’s not scary I don’t know what is. When I started this blog your reading,Positive Writer, one of my first blog posts was about...