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Author: Vigdis Tange Andersen

ADHD stands for Attention deficit hypertension disorder. This is basically their lack to focus and control themselves. ADHD started in childhood. It changes the way a child can think, act, and feel. Most children in their younger stages are overly active, but when it comes to ADHD, their activity levels can be violent, extreme, and considering. ADHD affects anywhere between 3-5% of school aged children.

It is also three times more common in boys than girls. Sometimes, ADHD will go away once the child has hit puberty. For others their condition will affect the rest of their lives. ADHD is when a child is unable to concentrate, fidgety, disruptive, and has low performance in school. They can become out of control at home and in school.

Some of the symptoms that will be noticeable in an infant is difficult to feed, constantly thirsty, throws their body in tantrums, and has extreme restlessness, or cries more than normal, or cannot sleep. In older children, you can pick up on ADHD because their attention span is very brief.

Their attention span comes in spats that may be as short as a few minutes. Other symptoms in older child are weak memory, poor coordination, fearless, impulsive, inflexible personality, low self-esteem, problems eating and sleeping, poor performance in class. These are not all the symptoms for ADHD, but the most common ones.

It is best that ADHD is caught at in an early stage because then it can be controlled and it will prevent secondary complications. If the child is not diagnosed early, the child will show great anxiety, frustration, and anger for most situations that are presented to them. Because of all the anger and frustration, the child will develop low self-esteem. However, there is no formal testing for ADHD. It is diagnosed through observations from parents, teachers, doctors, and mental health professionals.

When the doctor interviews the mother or father, they will ask them to describe the behavior of their child. The mother will also be asked questions about the pregnancy and delivery of the child. The doctor will examine the dynamics in the home because ADHD is often confused with side effects of emotional and psychical abuse.

Teachers are asked because they won’t have an emotional attachment to the situation and they are the few people who know the child and can step out of the situation and reflect. Many observations that are taken from teachers or principals are considered hard evidence. A doctor will evaluate the child’s developmental and behavior issues. The doctor sort out rather the child has ADHD or that they are conflicted from other illnesses or conditions.

As for treatments, ADHD can be controlled with medication like Ritalin or amphetamines. The only other treatment for ADHD is institutionalizing the child.


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