Living with Add

There are many different psychological problems that younger children have to deal with daily. Attention Deficit Disorder or commonly known as ADD is one of the most popular known psychological problems. Some psychologists or other doctors refer to the child as a “child with ADD” or as an “ADD child.” A behaviorist might refer to the child as a child who displays ADD behavior. ADD is a term used to describe the behavior of a child or adolescent who has a hard time focusing and maintaining attention in academic or social situations. A typical day at school can be a struggle for these young children. Children are sometimes labeled ADD or ADHD if they are very energetic and tend to be disruptive in the classroom or if they are a very quiet child who sits at their desk staring out the window or doodling. A child, who is chronically disorganized, has difficulty remembering things, consistently loses things or waits until the last minute to complete homework or projects could be suffering from ADD.
There are many different ways to label a child with ADD. A person without a mental disorder might label the child’s behavior as problematic because they are ignorant to the symptoms in which the child suffers. In the society we live in currently, many, if not all businesses, corporations, and other institutions have started to take mental disorders and looked past them as being something discriminatory. Another way to label this problem would be to say a child “fails to be attentive” or “is unable to fully understand due to an outlying issue which neurologically affects the child.” Due to the behavior of two adolescence boys, an outside observer may automatically believe that they are affected by ADD. However, in reality one child may be affected but the other child may also be seen as having ADD due to his adolescence immature, high energized behavior.
There are many affects that the labels have when determining what types of treatments are needed. Many psychoactive drugs... [continues]

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