Word: adhd
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...drug is not an action that the Food and Drug Administration takes lightly. So when an FDA advisory committee recommended on Thursday that the agency's strongest safety warnings be placed on packages of the massively popular drug Ritalin and similar stimulants used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its less frenetic cousin, ADD, the suggestion made national headlines and generally freaked out patients, parents and more than a few doctors...
Compared with childhood disorders in which children are disruptive and disorderly-- such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--selective mutism gets less attention and considerably fewer research dollars. "These children are ignored because, let's face it, they aren't causing anyone trouble. They are literally left alone and forgotten about," says psychologist Lindsey Bergman, associate director of the UCLA child and adolescent OCD [obsessive-compulsive disorder] and anxiety disorders program...
Haber, now retired, had always been disorganized. His life was full of clutter. He had trouble managing everyday tasks and meeting deadlines. "I would ask myself, 'Am I lazy?'" he says. Then a diagnostic workup revealed that Haber has ADD (also known as ADHD, or attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder). Now he's treating it. He takes the stimulant Ritalin to help him focus, and he sometimes consults with an ADD coach, who helps him keep the clutter...
...John Ratey, co-author of the landmark Driven to Distraction, says seniors are often referred by their children in a "stair-step" sequence--first the grandchild is found to have ADD, then the parent and finally Grandma or Grandpa. Recalls Virginia Cooper, 73, who has a grandchild with ADHD: "My daughter said, 'Mother, I think you've got it.' And I said, 'Don't be ridiculous.' But then I read about it and realized that maybe she was right. I've always been distracted. I cannot stick to one thing. It's like somebody's changing channels in my brain...
...professional help because they are having trouble managing their lives. Many retirees find it tough to adjust to the loss of structure that their jobs had provided--the scheduled tasks, the meetings and mealtimes, the office assistants who kept things organized. According to psychologist Kathleen Nadeau of the Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland, in Silver Spring, retirement leaves some individuals "swimming in murky water." Even downsizing from a house to an apartment, with all the attendant decisions about what to keep and what to throw out, may prompt seniors to seek therapy...