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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:18PM (8 children)
Yeah its hard to believe in the 2000s that putting kids into a 1800s school system designed to create the ideal 1900s factory workers and cannon fodder might result in a large segment of the population not fitting in and getting medicated for "failure".
In terms of minimizing total pharmacological resources the lowest impact solution would be to medicate the failed system's administrators and leaders such that they could implement something more modern, optimistically more useful and humane.
I bet the racial issues with ADHD are interesting. For identical behavior, depending on a kid's 23andme results, either he's the worlds calmest, tranquil, and introverted Irish, Italian, Black, or Latino, or he's the worlds most hyperactive extroverted motivated German, Brit, or Swede. Imagine a doc having to look at your 23andme before deciding if you need uppers or downers based on your ancestry, assuming medically enforced reversion to the racial median should be a medical goal, to begin with...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday March 15 2018, @04:39PM (3 children)
Err, what? There's approximately zero correlation between race/nationality and personality, except to the degree that black people in the US have been repeatedly on the receiving end of lead poisoning and other environmental problems as the result of being forced to live in the crappiest parts of town.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @06:53PM
Well, VLM tends to act normal and then mix weird beliefs into his otherwise believable stuff.
Some people here contribute greatly but are like a smart weird uncle fester. you have to try not to diagnose their mental health issue and keep focused on the conversation while steering them back to the more relevant topics they are clearly good with but have a hard time staying focused on.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday March 16 2018, @01:03PM (1 child)
You'd have better luck trying to convince people there's zero correlation between race/nationality and skin melanin concentration, LOL.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Friday March 16 2018, @03:38PM
So what you're saying is that you know at most 1 person from each of the various ethnic groups you mentioned, and based on that ignorance fell back to thinking stereotypes were an accurate reflection of reality. Got it.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:43PM (3 children)
As well, take away ball playing (someone might get hurt), monkey bars etc (someone might get hurt), PICKING up bloody snow (it might lead to snowball throwing)....
....kids can't let off steam during recess so they act up and have too much energy...
.... SURPRISE!
We were ALWAYS outside running our ASSES off: football, soccer, baseball, fecking tag. Run, run, run...we were like a fecking Doctor Who episode.
Today, it's "stand there and dont get into trouble"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 15 2018, @10:47PM
If the snow is bloody you have other more pressing issues
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Thursday March 15 2018, @11:43PM (1 child)
We did the same — but I clearly remember one boy in elementary school who was still constantly getting into trouble because he was hyperactive, had virtually no impulse control, and couldn't focus on anything for more than a minute or two. In retrospect, I feel sorry for him; he was often very funny, but had no friends because his behavior was so obnoxious.
I agree with you otherwise, though; I've been seeing articles for years about elementary schools eliminating morning 'snacktime' recess & P.E., severely cutting back lunchtime recess, while also expecting kindergarteners to have long desk-based schooldays similar to our 1st grade. Add in that the kids ride in a car/bus for distances we always used to walk, aren't allowed to run/bike around with neighborhood kids after school, given as much homework as we were at 2-3 grade levels above, and that they then end up spending their remaining free time doing sedentary things (games, etc.).
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday March 16 2018, @01:05PM
Also eliminating organized screwing around like art and music. Nothing but the 3 R's to get those standardized test scores up.