ADHD: Diagnoses, Difficulties, and Advice for Hyperactive Children and Adults

By Heather Foreman

There are many misconceptions about ADHD. We are here to sort them out.


In this book, various topics will be included, like:

Children with ADHD versus grownups with ADHD.
Diagnosis analysis and thoughts about the dangers or benefits.
Social hardships children with ADHD face.
The question of whether or not ADHD can disappear in a person as he/she grows older.
Non-medical treatments to fight the symptoms.
Thoughts about mothers with ADHD in particular.
Thoughts on the effects of more or less sex on people with ADHD.
And many other subtopics.


Don’t wait and get started now. You will most likely learn new things in this book that you have never heard before.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Efalon Acies
• Release date: Jul 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835867913

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Contents

Chapter 1: Do Children with ADHD Become Grownups with ADHD? 3

Chapter 2: The Leading 7 Tips to Help Your Kid Tackle ADHD 5

Chapter 3: Is the ADHD Diagnosis Handy or Dangerous at All? 8

Chapter 4: Social Difficulties of Children with ADHD 10

Chapter 5: Can Grownups with ADHD Truly Change? 12

Chapter 5: A Non-Medicinal Treatment for ADHD and Why It Functions 14

Chapter 6: Are You a Mom with ADHD? 16

Chapter 7: More Sex for ADHD People 19

Chapter 8: It Doesn't Work for Everybody 21

Chapter 1: Do Children with ADHD Become Grownups with ADHD?

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition identified by inattentive and/or hyperactive-impulsive behaviors that persist for 6 months or longer. About 6 percent of kids and adolescents and about 3% of adults have ADHD because the signs are comparable in children and grownups, it has been presumed that ADHD is the same disorder regardless of age. Therefore, most physician have concluded that grownups with ADHD have had ADHD since they were young and that many kids with ADHD become grownups with ADHD. Regardless of this commonly held belief, there have been few research studies directly addressing this problem.

An essential paper recently released in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Terrie Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, and coworkers provides strong proof that difficulties these presumptions. This study is compelling just because it uses a longitudinal design involving over a thousand individuals born between April 1972 and March 1973 in Dunedin, New Zealand. That large group of people has been carefully evaluated at regular intervals with the most current assessment at 38 years of age. This potential longitudinal design is ideal for determining what happens to kids with a diagnosis of ADHD as they get older. Additionally, it provides the investigators with the ability to look at information that have been gathered when adults with adult-onset ADHD were young. Importantly, results from this research study were not likely to be affected by treatment of ADHD because medications were seldom used for ADHD in New Zealand in the 1970's.

This research team found that 95% of the kids with ADHD no