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The textbook symptoms of ADD — inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity — fail to reflect several of its most powerful characteristics; the ones that shape your perceptions, emotions, and motivation. Here, Dr. William Dodson explains how to recognize and manage ADHD's true defining features.
The DSM-V – the bible of psychiatric diagnosis – lists 18 diagnostic criteria for attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD). Clinicians use this to identify symptoms, insurance companies use it to determine coverage, and researchers use it to determine areas of worthwhile study.
The problem: These criteria only describe how ADHD affects children ages 6-12, and that has led to misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, and failed treatment for teens, adults, and the elderly.
Most people, clinicians included, have only a vague understanding of what ADHD means. They assume it equates to hyperactivity and poor focus, mostly in children. They are wrong.
When we step back and ask, "What does everyone with ADHD have in common, that people without ADHD don't experience?" a different set of symptoms take shape.
From this perspective, three defining features of ADHD emerge that explain every aspect of the condition:
1. an interest-based nervous system
2. emotional hyperarousal
3. rejection sensitivity
Not precisely news but damned if it's not an interesting read if it has any relevance in your life.
Source: https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by meustrus on Thursday March 15 2018, @03:01PM (22 children)
Except that if you read the link, or even the end of the summary, it would be clear that the symptoms that you are talking about are incorrect for ADHD diagnosis. Yeah, boys will be boys...and there was a period of time where that got them misdiagnosed with ADHD due to helicopter parents shopping for a medical diagnosis to explain their active little boys not fitting into the sit-down academic culture they think is best.
That doesn't change the fact that girls and adults can have ADHD too, not to mention boys that don't fit the stereotype. In fact, according to TFA, only "25% of children and 5% of adults" with ADHD fit this stereotype:
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 3, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:20PM (21 children)
Don't let the facts get in the way of a good straight-white-male persecution complex whinge 9_9
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:53PM
It won't stop straight white males from getting together in their garages and revolutionizing the world (yet again).
Once I realized that, I stopped getting all hot and bothered by your kind of trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @12:21AM (19 children)
Women are counter-revolutionary
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 16 2018, @12:53AM (18 children)
I dunno about that but they're damned sure counter-intuitive.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 17 2018, @01:00AM (17 children)
Other women make a hell of a lot more sense to me than men do. Maybe we're not "counter-intuitive." Maybe your intuition's broken, or never worked in the first place. Or maybe you're one of those guys who's so obsessed with his own manliness he never learned to relate to the other 51% of the human race.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @02:15AM (16 children)
Or maybe men's and women's brains just function very differently. Let's check what science says... Yup, they do.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 17 2018, @02:47AM (15 children)
"Very" differently? Links and citations, please, and by "citation" I don't mean the latest drivel put out by some "Christian" apologist masquerading as a child psychologist. You're weasel-wording again...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @06:05AM (1 child)
I don't care for TMB, but you're one to talk. Perhaps you could provide some real citations for men not being oppressed when you post such bullshit. By basically every imaginable measure American men are doing worse than American women are.
So yes, American women are more or less counter any sense of reason as they continue to claim that they're being oppressed even though there's no evidence of it. Women being shitty to each other is not oppression.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:10PM
Up yours, troll. Whatever oppression men are facing is almost entirely caused *by other men.* It's not women who start wars, gamble with the entire US economy in that giant casino known as Wall Street, drop nuclear and chemical and biological Hell on other people, or even who commit most crimes. Men suffer almost entirely at the hands of other men, and the fact that some of it is because you idiots think one-upping each other is a way to get women just makes your whinging all the more pathetic.
Yes, American men are doing badly. Stop and ask yourself why and whose fault that is. If your knee-jerk response is to blame women, congratulations: you're a useful idiot for the real criminals and they've played you like the proverbial damn fiddle.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday March 17 2018, @11:21AM (12 children)
Darlin, when a neurologist can take the Pepsi Challenge with a brain MRI and tell you whether the subject is male or female without having so much as a hint ahead of time, you're just wrong. Admit it and move on.
You're also essentially stating that trans people are just weirdos who could decide any time they like to not be trans if you don't acknowledge that particular fact. Feminist dogma and support for trans folk's position cannot logically exist in the same mind.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 17 2018, @03:06PM (11 children)
Hey, dipfuck, the two sexes' brains still produce roughly the same type and magnitude general intelligence ("g"), though I question that somewhat in your case. The structural differences, most notably amount and distribution of grey vs white matter and the inter-hemispheric vs intra-hemispheric connection ratio, aren't the same thing as even the difference between H. sapiens and P. troglodytes brains. Women aren't aliens. Human brains are easily recognizable as human brains.
And what the hell do trans* people have to do with this? TERF dogma is incompatible with them, yes, but TERF dogma is incompatible with plenty of other parts of observable reality too. It's the brain scan data I've found that made me *not* a TERF, because it seems trans* people really *do* have some of the brain development and organization of the sex they believe they ought to have been born.
It's clear you have little or no understanding of neuroscience or, for that matter, feminism. We already suspected as much but thanks for confirming it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday March 18 2018, @10:49AM (10 children)
No, they don't. Men are distributed more evenly over the IQ spectrum while women are statistically crowded more towards the median. Which is to say you internal plumbing types have both significantly less geniuses and significantly less retards.
But that was never a statement I made in the first place. It was just your strawman. Excuse me, strawperson. What I said is that our brains function differently. And they provably do. So much so that a competent neurologist can tell which is which simply by watching what lights up in the brain in response to various stimuli. It's indisputable science and you're just going to have to live with it.
Only that it is logically impossible to claim there are no significant differences between the male and female minds as a feminist and then claim there are in order to support trans folks. If there are no real differences then it is not possible to be a woman trapped in a man's body or vice versa. If there are then you've just shot down a lot of your own feminist garbage.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday March 18 2018, @03:21PM (9 children)
Actually, Uzzard, the fact that there *are* differences between the two sexes' brains is what led me away from potentially becoming a TERF all those years ago. The differences aren't as pronounced as you think, is my point; you treat women as if we're some kind of alien life form, far out of proportion to what differences actually exist, and your constant bitching about "feminist garbage" only underscores the point here, that all this angst and asspain is coming from you not doing well with women in one way or another.
Yes, there are differences between male and female minds. No, they aren't enough for you to act and talk like this. The sexes still produce about the same general intelligence, though yes, as you pointed out, men tend to be the outliers. How much of that is nature and how much is nurture is an interesting and debatable subject, one I'm not sure we have any data on yet. I've taken to thinking of the Y chromosome as something like a set of slightly-unstable patches against the source tree of the human genome, one which potentially provides greater performance in certain areas for the tradeoff of decreased stability and interoperability in others.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 20 2018, @11:21AM (8 children)
Not really. I just acknowledge that the differences exist. Now I may joke about the sexes being utterly unable to understand each other but that's both hyperbole and humor that every heterosexual person can identify with once they've started dating.
There are some fundamental differences though that, though minor relative to our similarities, can cause major issues. Watch a group of guys working some time if you want to see some of them in action. The social dynamics have some significant differences vs. a group of women working together. Which is a big part of why we've had so much strife going on with the integration of the sexes into the work force.
I'm not even convinced men and women can ever work well together as interchangeable cogs in a labor pool. We've been trying it now for several decades and it has yet to stabilize and give us good, solid examples of how it should be done. It may be possible but I guarantee you the way towards success is not going to be either how women currently think it should or how men currently think it should. It simply isn't something that physical or social evolution has solved yet.
Which is essentially setting women as the baseline. Understandable since you're in fact a woman but not in any way rational or reasonable being as you lot with the nice pairs (of X chromosomes) are absolutely as unstable and antisocial as any man, only in different ways. Realistically we'd both be unstable patch sets that make up for each other's shortcomings with the trunk never actually being used.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 20 2018, @02:43PM (7 children)
Heh...you know what someone with only an X chromosome is? A woman, though a rather sick one, IIRC "Turner's Syndrome." You know what someone with only a Y chromosome is? Dead. Miscarried. Spontaneously aborted. That is incompatible with life. Face it, genetically speaking the X *is* the baseline. Y mostly modifies what already exists. Why (Y) do you think sex-linked diseases are so much more common in men? It's because you only have one X chromosome, so your bodies can't fall back to the other one.
I'd agree with you somewhat about the workplace, though I don't think "a group of men working together" really qualifies as a happy-clappy utopia once matters of status or rank enter the picture. Still, one of my most miserable experiences was retail at a clothing store with a bunch of queen bees and one tiny, loud, annoying manager whom i can best describe as "a 4'11" female Donald Trump."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:05PM (6 children)
You are, occasionally, funny. This is one of those times.
I'm not saying either women-only or men-only workplaces are any better, just that the social dynamics are quite different and mixing them together without taking this into account is a recipe for disaster as has been shown over the past several decades. Take a blue-collar group of guys and introduce an average woman and she's going to have issues with the rude and crude demeanor as well as the strongly hierarchical power dynamics that work perfectly well among them, for instance. This is, of course, a generalization.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:54PM (5 children)
You don't seem to like science very much, I notice. Or facts. Or reality. Too bad simply ignoring and refusing to address them doesn't make them go away~ :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 20 2018, @10:25PM (4 children)
I can't tell if you're utterly failing at self-awareness or just trying to troll. Meh, I don't really care either way right now. I'm far more interested in the hot wings I hear calling to me. You'll just have to go troll yourself for a while.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:16AM (3 children)
If you didn't care you wouldn't keep answering, cupcake :) Let's not kid ourselves, anyone reading this subthread would have noticed the exact point a couple of posts ago when you stopped saying anything substantive and stopped even pretending to reply to anything that was said to you and started acting all butthurt. If i were you i'd go easy on the hot wings until those hemorrhoids go down, tiger...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:29AM (2 children)
Appreciate the concern but I have superanus. I regularly attack it with delicious chemical weaponry to keep it from getting complacent in its comfort.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:32AM (1 child)
o/~ You chowed down down down, and the flames rose higher o/~
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:31AM
This is a fine example of how even the most fucked up in the head person has at least a few redeeming qualities. Anyone who can appreciate Cash is worth some effort to bring back into the light.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.