ADHD-What is ADHD? Is it an excuse? How is it misunderstood?

 What is ADHD?

Have you ever come across a person who is immensely intelligent but looks so lazy, Someone who has so much potential to do something but they can't focus and they are lazy? Majority of parents and guardians just scold the children who can't sit still, can't focus, fidgets a lot or forget lots of things, but they don't have the proper knowledge that these are basically the symptoms of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

 

Mostly people think that if their child/kid is being lazy and not good at focusing or is not being able to sit for a while they leave it to them considering it there playfulness, laziness or just being irresponsible. They will leave them be and think that they will be fine when they grow up. This is a huge misconception that people with ADHD will be fine when they will grow up. But in fact, those children with ADHD will grow up with it, the symptoms, the disorder won't disappear in future but will be more tough to treat.

 

If anyone, a child or an adult, shows such symptoms they should immediately be treated medically. Imagine a person suffering from this disorder is only being criticized or blamed for there behavior when they didn't even do anything and they don't even know what to do with it? How to live with it? Their mental health is shattered in struggle to cover up and live with it. Having same IQ and intelligence of your fellows but not being able to perform to their full potential, how would they have felt?

 

Many adults with ADHD are unaware that they have it, they only know that they struggle with normal activities which their fellows can do easily. Adults with ADHD may struggle to focus and setting priorities, resulting in missed due dates and missed meetings or social commitments. The failure to control the situation can be very annoying such as while waiting in line or driving in traffic, mood swings and temper tantrums. They just can’t do simple activities with ease, because they feel angry or irritated with them. We have often seen children or teens throwing tantrums on simple things because they can’t help it so they feel angry. People with ADHD are impulsive, they don’t have self-control so they do many things on impulses.  

When ADHD is diagnosed it is treated by two methods. First, they treat it with medications. Second, they collect information from the patient’s parents or guardians and start behavioral therapy. Behavioral therapy helps in reducing the medication and is very much effective in treatment. Mostly the symptoms start at childhood but if not treated they continue even in adults. Mostly adults with ADHD have one other mental health issue. Such are the effects of it are on one’s life. Many adults face trouble in building relationship because of ADHD. Their mood swings, frustrations and impulsiveness can cause a lot of harm for everyone they are related with, even their social circles get affected by it. 

It is a fact ADHD makes it difficult for a person to maintain his/her focus, but when it comes to mobile phones, video games, and televisions, however, the constant change of image, graphics, and games can captivate their attention. Their brain starts wanting the reward it receives when they're looking at a screen, making it difficult to pull themself away from it. It is also affecting their life as it makes them seem like someone who just don’t want to focus on their studies or work, when it is just an effect of ADHD.

ADHD can cause anxiety, sleep problems, panic attacks, impulsive buying, screen addiction, bad eating habits and chronic stress. When you have the disorder, your stress level is likely to be higher most of time. These problems can cause many troubles and create hindrances in one’s life. It may not have that much affect in their childhood but when they grow up with this problem it can affect not only their day-to-day activities but also professionally, they won’t be able to keep up the good work with these mood swings and frustrations. Also, impulsive buying can lead to a very bad financial condition and compulsive eating can harm their stomach and cause digestion problem.

There are many natural ways of treating ADHD too. For example, exercising, planning your sleep schedule and planning your meals, creating a routine, make goals for yourself, starve your distractions, having goals set for your life etc. While these are some natural remedies to treat ADHD but seeking medical help is necessary to treat it.