Tuesday, June 30, 2009

ADD Symptoms - Overview

By Anne Durrell

Understanding the difference and understanding the different types of ADD symptoms can help ensure that you or your child gets the right treatment.

Different Symptoms

ADHD symptoms include three different categories. These are:

* Inattention

* Restless

* Impulsivity

On the other hand, ADD only causes the distraction symptoms.

Treating a patient for ADHD when they have ADD is overmedicating and could lead to further issues. In many cases, the stories about Ritalin and other ADHD treatment medications that cause a child to be zombie-like are probably linked directly to medicating children with only ADD with the wrong medication or wrong doses, thinking that they have ADHD.

Distraction Symptoms

With ADD the only type of warning signs that will be showed are inattentiveness symptoms, and they are include:

* Cannot concentrate to details

* Careless mistakes

* Easily unfocused

* Poor listening skills

* Trouble following instructions

* Leaving work unfinished

* Can't put anything in order

* Always forget

Analyzing ADD can help a child get a grasp on stuffs as well as begin to be able to concentrate. A childe that is treated for ADD will start to do better in school as well as have better activities overall.

In many occasion, many parents always believe that their kids could not be ADD since they can play for many hours doing many activities they like without being sidetracked.

The truth is that a child with ADD can concentrate when they like what they are doing because it does not require them to put effort into paying attention and being focused like an activity they do not like does.

ADD will worsen, as the child gets older or at least continue to cause problems with school and other activities. By this time, though, it has progressed into something that is probably causing all around issues in the child's life.

It is actually much better to recognized ADD in younger children so that the children can get used to taking medicine as well as learn how to face ADD symptoms.

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