Due to a variety of circumstances, it’s sort of been the norm that women with attention deficit disorder are overlooked and undiagnosed. Common wisdom is that ADD is more prevalent in men and boys than in women and girls. If you are a women who feels stressed out, distracted, overwhelmed, with too many responsibilities and [...]

What is the most common attention deficit disorder symptom? There are many symptoms that can lead to a diagnosis of ADD or ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and many of these are used to diagnose other conditions as well which makes diagnosis challenging. How can you tell if you or a loved one has ADD? [...]

The interest in Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) tends to focus mainly on children, which makes information about adult Attention Deficit Disorder symptoms a little bit harder to find. Although ADD is definitely a hot health concern in today’s society, the disorder was not much heard of when the adult of today was a child decades [...]

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), also called Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is a hot topic when it comes to kids’ health these days. Because ADD symptoms in children can appear to just be normal “kidlike” behavior and because they differ from one child to the next, the disorder is sometimes hard to pin down. ADD is [...]

This topic causes a lot of confusion and one of the reasons is that, up until fairly recently, the two were considered to be the same thing. Before 1987, the term ADD was used to describe people who had a hard time concentrating, keeping still and focusing, among other symptoms. In that year, ADD was [...]

How do you go about getting ADHD testing for your child or yourself? Quite a bit of information must be collected in order for a medical professional to make the official diagnosis of ADHD. Some data is obtained through clinical interviews. In these interviews, you will be asked to complete behavior checklists or questionnaires for [...]