ADHD: Traumas, Symptoms, Medication, Treatments, and Tips

By Heather Foreman

What is executive function?

Can video games help people with ADHD?

Is suicide related to ADHD?

How about emotional trauma?

How does ADHD affect families and the way they function?

Questions like these have been researched and put together in this book. You will learn about many aspects of ADHD and the side effects of the condition that you may have never heard of before. These pieces of information are short but to-the-point. They are valuable gems for people who are interested in the topic.

If that is you, then I encourage you to start reading or listening to this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Efalon Acies
• Release date: Jul 22, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835868057

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Contents

Chapter 1: How ADHD Adults Cope Before Treatment 3

Chapter 2: Executive Function 6

Chapter 3: Common Myths About ADHD 7

Chapter 4: Tips for Gifted Adults with ADHD 9

Chapter 5: Can a Computer Game Help Kids with ADHD? 12

Chapter 6: Can ADHD Medication Prevent Suicide? 14

Chapter 7: ADHD and Emotional Trauma 17

Chapter 8: ADHD Is Pushing Romantic Partners to Progress People 20

Chapter 9: Gauging Family Stress When a Child has ADHD 23

Chapter 1: How ADHD Adults Cope Before Treatment

Coping in the Dark

What I always intuitively did, from early, was to stay away from any kind of dependence/commitment ... any kind of commitment, even a club membership, where you really need to go to meetings five times a year, whatever, even that would've felt restricting.

The above declaration is how one adult in a just recently released research study defined attempts to handle symptoms of undiagnosed ADHD. Another subject defined surrounding myself always with a lot of people as it never attracted attention when I behaved specially obnoxiously. Other compensation strategies included being overly punctual, studying in a cold basement as a way to reduce distractions, having actually carefully structured check lists for each work step, and finding ways to work without paper by dealing with workers who work only on call without written appointments (Canela et al, 2017).

ADHD Symptoms

The research study, which was based upon interviews with 32 patients in a Zürich teaching healthcare facility outpatient clinic, looked at ways in which undiagnosed and without treatment grownups with ADHD tried to manage their signs by themselves.

The core signs of ADHD often manifest differently in grownups than in kids. Hyperactivity might be uttered as fiddling, failure to unwind, as uneasyness or being not able to sit still for longer periods while studying, at work or in a film. Impatience, interrupting others in discussions, impulsive behaviour, changing jobs regularly, beginning a firm on impulse, changing sexual relationships are typically expressions of impulsivity, though inattention usually shows itself as lapse of memory, poor organization, not listening to others in discussions or being late. (Canela et al, 2017).

ADHD symptoms, according to Russell Barkley, PhD, result from brain distinctions of disordered self-regulation and executive functioning. As such, people with ADHD can't just try harder or think their way to a repair; like the old Apple commercial, they need to learn to think (and, more crucial, to act) different.

Estimates for the occurrence of ADHD in adults