Adult ADHD

The following paper deals with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Adults. The paper will mainly focus on the symptoms of ADHD along with diagnosis of it. It will show how at least some research demonstates that adult and child ADHD are two different things and should be treated as such. In the process it will higlhight the what at times can be conflicting nature of adult ADHD research. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a disorder in which people have trouble focusing. Individuals are generally abnormally hyper and have a hard time keeping still. Along with that they have a tendency to be impulsive and so may at times act on the hyperactivity. For example a college student suffering from it may have a hard time studying for long periods of time because of the amount of focus and sitting that must be done. It would not be strange to see a college student suffering from ADHD to get up during the middle of their studying and randomly go for a run. When the disorder is present in adults it is referred to as adult ADHD. ADHD is condered treatable. ADHD in adults: a practical guide to evaluation and management considers ADHD to be something people have little control over. The invidual has trouble keeping focused no matter how hard they try. It chararterizes it more as a loss of conrol of mental and physical capablities. The average adult can force themselves to sit down and focus if they have to, this is not the case for those with ADHD. If something does not engage the person, there is very little chance of them being able to focus on it and get it done. ADHD is more of a matter of what the person focus's on at individual period of time. For a diagnosis to be made based on current DSM-IV the symptoms must have been present in childhood. Symptoms of ADHD must be present by the age of 12 (Rist, Pedersen, Rist, 2013 ). This can make it hard to obtain a diagnosis once the person has reached adulthood. At that point diagnosis is forced to