ADHD Study reveals impact of ADHD on adults
Posted on April 03, 2013 by Dan Weigold, One of Thousands of ADD ADHD Coaches on Noomii.
ADHD was thought to primarily affect children. A new study reveals that the impact is considerable in adults.
Some have written, “shocking” results from the new study on Adult ADHD. For many years it has been assumed that children grow out of ADHD and that their ADHD was far less significant as they matured in life. A new study that will be published in the journal “Pediatrics” shows that adult ADHD is far more prevalent than professionals thought.
The study shows:
– 29% of the children with ADHD still had ADHD as adults
– 57% of children with ADHD had at least one other psychiatric disorder as adults – including major depression, generalized anxiety and substance abuse.
– Of the children who still had ADHD as adults, 81% had at least one other psychiatric disorder, as compared with 47% of those who no longer had ADHD.
If you are an adult and are experiencing ADHD issues and have repressed the issues thinking it would just go away it probably won’t. If the issues are severe and troubling you then consider getting some professional help to help you:
- Manage your time more effectively
- Achieve better focus and attention
- Organize your work, ideas and life
- Overcome procrastination
- Think better of yourself
- Improve your executive memory functions.
Coaching is a great way to develop new ways to manage your ADHD. Create new habits that will allow you to be successful in a world that is changing faster all of the time.
If ADHD is impacting your work, your relationships, or your satisfaction with life then consider getting help to reduce the impact ADHD has on your life.
Perhaps the most important thing to realize from the study is that ADHD is impacting adults in larger numbers than previously thought and that should give many adults permission to seek outside resources to help manage the symptoms.
