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Adults also have ADHD.
People all know that children have ADHD, but did you know that adults also have ADHD?
1976, American scholar Wood and others reported ADHD for the first time. According to the survey, 1% ~ 6% of adults in the United States suffer from this disease.
For decades, most people and even doctors only regarded attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a behavioral problem of children and adolescents, and thought that it would disappear naturally after puberty. However, now doctors believe that this disease will exist for life, and it will affect all aspects of patients' lives all the time.
According to the survey of American experts, adults with this disease are prone to problems in employment, interpersonal relationship and family life, and they will also have a higher incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and driving accidents. In particular, many adult patients simply don't realize that their behavioral defects are caused by ADHD, so they won't seek help from doctors. At present, psychiatrists, psychologists and community health care doctors in the United States have begun to pay attention to adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and have taken holistic and all-weather treatment for such patients.
Although there is no similar report in China in recent years, the disease should also attract the attention of relevant parties. The disease may not seem serious, but it is very harmful.
Many adults have ADHD since childhood, and some people's symptoms can last for life and become a mental disorder.
According to the survey, about13 of the adolescent patients with this disease in the United States can't finish high school, and few patients with this disease are admitted to universities. Even if they are admitted to the university, only 5% of them can finish their studies.
After these patients go to work, the dismissal rate and job-hopping frequency are higher than those of ordinary people, and employers often report that patients have more abnormal performances at work. Because patients can't adapt to collective work well, many of them have become individual workers.
In driving, they have more illegal behaviors than ordinary people. They lack the habit of driving safely, brake incorrectly, react slowly and drive unsteadily, which often leads to crashes. They are often the perpetrators of car accidents, so their economic losses are higher than others.
Most teenagers with ADHD will have sex earlier and cannot keep a single and long-term sexual partner. Therefore, they often have multiple sexual partners, and the pregnancy rate and the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases are high.
Some scholars have investigated the daily medical expenses of ADHD patients, and found that patients have more hospitalization, outpatient service and emergency treatment, and their medical expenses are twice that of non-ADHD patients.
Adult ADHD should be treated not only with drugs, but also with education and psychotherapy to improve its ability to adapt to society, work and life.
Signals of adult ADHD
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At present, people are familiar with ADHD in children, but not in adults.
According to the follow-up observation and active research of relevant experts, ADHD is not unique to children. If ADHD is not treated in time after childhood, some of them can last until the middle-aged and young people, but the symptoms are different, which is called "adult mild brain dysfunction", that is, adult ADHD.
Adult ADHD often has the following five characteristics:
① ADHD is mainly manifested in thinking.
② I had a history of ADHD when I was a child.
③ Emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression.
④ After taking central stimulant, the symptoms were obviously improved.
⑤ Personality is not perfect, and there are different degrees of personality disorder or social adaptation disorder.
Modern medicine believes that ADHD in adults is actually a continuation of ADHD in children. When they are adults, they will restrain their meaningless actions in front of everyone, but the thoughts that others can't see are often distracted. Their behavior often makes unit leaders "headache", and even affects social order and violates the law.
Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the propaganda work of adult ADHD and take some "perpetrators" to the hospital for examination and treatment.
At present, the diagnostic criteria of adult ADHD have not been unified. Some scholars put forward the following four points for reference:
(1) Early learning difficulties with inattention;
② Diffuse and severe anxiety, depression or other equivalent symptoms in adulthood;
(3) The symptoms were obviously improved after taking promethazine;
④ The mental state examination is characterized by fast speech speed and varied topics, but it has no obvious psychotic thinking characteristics (such as pathological repetition and implicit concept).