About 4% of adults have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and many others have never been diagnosed. (About half of kids with ADHD still have it in adulthood.) Here are 15 signs of adult ADHD.
A diagnosis can be important. Adults with ADHD tend to have lower incomes as well as higher rates of accidents, unplanned pregnancies, and substance abuse than those without it, says Martin W. Wetzel, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha.
Children with ADHD can be overly energetic, but adults may just feel edgy or restless.
"Adults don’t show the more obvious signs such as running and jumping," says Colette de Marneffe, PhD, a clinical psychologist in Silver Spring, Md. "Hyperactivity presents more subtly in the form of restlessness."
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It would be disturbing to suddenly see grown people running and jumping for no apparent reason.
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ReplyDeleteI had ADHD throughout school as did thousands of others.My school hired special tutors for a small group of us.It did'nt have a name but we all had it.
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ReplyDeleteOh yes it DID have a name.
It was called "NOT whooping your spoiled outta control child's ass."
What did you do, grow out of it? LOL