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To: Beach_Babe

Get a grip — you need some Adderal to help collect your thoughts.


98 posted on 08/20/2012 9:04:11 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

This is interesting:

Is ADHD associated with other disorders?

Yes. In fact, symptoms like those of ADHD are often mistaken for or found occurring with other neurological, biological and behavioral disorders.

Oppositional defiant disorder. Nearly half of all children with ADHD (especially boys) tend to also have oppositional defiant disorder, characterized by negative, hostile and defiant behavior.

Conduct disorder. Conduct disorder (marked by aggression towards people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft and serious rule-breaking) is found to co-occur in an estimated 40 percent of children with ADHD.

Anxiety and depression. Approximately one-fourth of children with ADHD (mostly younger children and boys) also experience anxiety and depression.

Communication/learning disability. At least 25 percent of children with ADHD have some type of communication/learning disability.

Tourette’s syndrome. There is additionally a correlation between Tourette’s syndrome, a neurobiological disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics and ADHD—a small percentage of those with ADHD also have Tourette’s, but at least half of those with Tourette’s also have ADHD.

Bipolar disorder. Research is also beginning to show that ADHD-like symptoms are sometimes actually manifestations of childhood-onset bipolar disorder.

http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Sec...ontentID=23047


99 posted on 08/20/2012 9:08:17 PM PDT by Beach_Babe
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