Articles by month: June 2015

There are times when ADHD behavior is difficult to understand and can be confusing not only to the person experiencing the behavior, but to those around him. Case in point: I was coaching a high school student who had a very interesting, yet not unique experience with regard to forgetfulness. Now, forgetting is something that occurs quite often for adults and teens with ADHD-ironically the individual will often promise that they did indeed do something that never happened. Why would that be? Why, or better yet, how, does someone believe in their heart-of-hearts that they did something when they didn't?

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is becoming something of an epidemic ... or so some would think. Over the last few decades, the number of children in the U.S. diagnosed with this condition has risen sharply, with numbers peaking in 2011. About 5.2 million children ages three to 17 have been diagnosed, and this number continues to grow, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ADHD is characterized primarilyby inattentiveness, impulsivity, and restlessness, making it hard for children with ADHD to focus in school. As a result, schoolwork suffers, as well as these children's interactions with their friends, since they are often unable to control their behavior. Scientists and doctors are still largely unsure of what causes this "difference" (as I like to refer to it as), but they have formulated several possibilities.

The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder epidemic is nothing new to Americans. In fact, in the U.S., about 5% of children suffer from this disorder, and an ADHD diagnosis has been handed out to 5.2 million children between the ages of 13 and 17.

Everyone gets distracted sometimes. But if you have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, these distractions are constant and can prevent you from doing what you need to do throughout the day.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has a bigger impact than most people think. It affects both the lives of patients and their families. ADHD not only causes 143.8 million days worth of lost productivity each year across 10 countries, but according to the Centers for Disease Control, it causes social issues as well. Children with a history of ADHD are about 10 times as likely to have problems that interfere with their friendships, while parents of children with a history of ADHD are three times as likely to have peer problems with other parents who aren't affected by ADHD.

Adults and children alike can suffer from attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, and those who do often struggle to keep organized and on-task. Across 10 countries, it has been estimated that every year ADHD causes 143.8 million days... worth of lost productivity. The American Psychiatric Association reports that about 5% of American children suffer from the disorder, and as of 2011, 17.5% of those children were not being treated by a counselor or medication.

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Are you starting to get "spring fever" and the desire to tidy up your space is nagging at you? I know it has for me! When spring begins I find myself re-organizing my drawers and cabinets and purging through papers. I even find this to be fun! Okay - you may not perceive this as a "fun" activity, but it can be.

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It was a Sunday night, and my 9 year-old computer had been behaving badly for many months. It took forever for it to go from one program to another, and always with the rainbow spinning "wheel of death" just spinning, and spinning, and then sometimes turning into the blue spinning "wheel of death."