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...problem, though neither Andrea nor her teacher knew it, was that her adolescent brain was being tossed by the neurochemical storms of generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)--a decidedly lousy trifecta. If that was what eighth grade was, ninth was unimaginable...
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tend to have a hard time in school--and after school too. A new study by the University of Pittsburgh finds that children with severe, persistent ADHD are more likely to drink, smoke cigarettes and use other drugs as teenagers. The good news, according to another study by Massachusetts General Hospital, is that if these children are treated with Ritalin (itself no panacea), they are no more likely than their peers without ADHD to develop drug and alcohol problems...
ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER Tends to run in families and affects two to three times as many boys as girls. Between 3% and 5% of U.S. schoolchildren are thought to have ADHD...
Clear answers are hard to find. For those of us who just don't feel right sometimes (and that means almost everyone), the list of possible disorders is endless, and their catchy, soundalike acronyms don't help. Is your problem, perhaps, ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), SAD (seasonal affective disorder) or GAD (generalized anxiety disorder)? Or could it be all three...
...where, one wonders, did hysteria go? Perhaps to the same place ADHD will go someday--back into the minds of the doctors who discovered it and the patients who were convinced they had it. Maybe some disorders behave like epidemics: they spread by contact, there's an immune response and they...