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Spotting ADHD in adults
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What symptoms should you look for?
- Duration 1:31
- Date Jul 22, 2012
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This event not a doctor about ADHD there's some growing signs of this and adults don't even know they have it.
Doctor -- what should people -- for.
Nine million adults have this attention deficit hyperactivity to sort of the first thing you do is ask yourself does my kid have it.
Because about 10% of kids have -- -- you know what Derek it runs in families and adults may not quality BHD but they may be.
Not focusing where they may not have a great relationship at home where they may have trouble.
On the job or their sex life may be in trouble they may get -- David there may have problems with motivation there -- -- mood swings all those things can be due to ADHD.
And you may be -- it something else.
But you need to get treatment if you have it and then maybe psychotherapy you'll work maybe medication stimulants will work but the key here is to get it diagnose.
Those doctors -- -- these are very very subtle and you know you see so these shooting crisis and a lot of adults may have this kind of symptoms and nobody can know this.
And I found that also that the ADHD comes in different shape performs.
Some of them are in intensive types some of them are impulsive -- so there are different and that's for the psychologist who really decide.
Who has anger management told his people can hold onto their jobs they don't pay their credit cards are financially trouble.
-- some of them.
Are just the types and really get bored they start within their war he needed halfway and then go to the next -- so there's cognitive and behavioral therapies as mark mentioned.
We can just remind yourself with the daily calendars -- -- organizing your life talk to the psychologist I'm finally medication to really help you --
