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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: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 15 2018, @07:58PM (1 child)
Man, you haven't lived til you've done it 3 times in a row as fast as you can: it gets you down to expelling nothing but the intensity goes waaay up.
Then you do it later.
That was my big problem in school: the girls. Oh, the girls.
My head went like I was watching a tennis match. I think I would have been better off at an all boys school, lol.
Can't understand guys today: they don't see all the girls due to all the fecking Facebooking and texting. We were the epitome of "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by".
Good times, but I kinda wish I had been in a boys school. Might have been able to focus better.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snotnose on Thursday March 15 2018, @11:17PM
Man, you haven't lived til you've had everyone ask about the scabs on your peener for a week; it gets you down to staying in your room. Where, with nothing better to do, peeny comes out to play. Gently of course, don't want those scabs to last a whole week!
/ um, a guy I knew in high school had that problem
// I swear, wasn't me
/// not 60 y/o me, at least....
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.