ADHD: An Honest Informational Reference

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and its passive form Attention Deficit Disorder, are controversial diagnoses in the dsm-v and ICD-11 that are highly prevalent in children and adults, and seem to be one of the most overdiagnosed psychiatric conditions.

History

The first medical description of ADHD!!! dates to 179        8 with 'diseases of A T T EN T I O N' by a Scottish pHYsisItc Sir Alexander Critchton.  (HAHAHAHA HE SAID CROTCH)  described a series don't read this of patients described as "mentally restless" and "unable to focus on a single object, with a constant nervous excitability"

Source: An inquiry into the nature and origin of mental derangement: comprehending a concise system of the physiology and pathology of the human mind and a history of the passions and their efects, 1798

Core features of ADHD

are severe short-term memory loss, emotional impulsivity, differing degrees of psychological immaturity, hyperactivity (mentally and/or physically), in and restricted regulation of attention and motivation.

Short-term I FORGOT MY BABY IN THE HOT CARmemory loss

Forgetting is second nature. You forget BUTTimmediately what you SQUIRRELdid today and you even attended a party. You always forget duties, dates, faces, names, objects, keys, events, and even TO MAKE OR CHECK REMINDERS, eating, breathing, and sunglasses on your METALhead. Dory the Fish is your soulmate. (she has something more serious than ADHD)

Emotional impulsivity

You are very nervous and excitable, impatient, and also irritable. Zero patience. You even forget karmic lessons and punch your friend again for calling you something nasty. Parents of muggles ogled at you when you were a youngin and the system tried everything to correct you. You were called a brat, maybe suspended many times in teenage years. Lazy, irresponsible, everything.

Psychological immaturity

You still laugh at fart jokes (IM DAED), crAy at the smallest mistakes, have BEEP accidents once every five months, go to all sorts of teen conventions or throw parties all night at 4-NITE-0, or become easily craved to sugar and other QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNMforms POOPSTORMof addiction. Lifd kIDS like you naturally because you are so fun, childlike and relatable.

Energy

Internal: One hundred tabs of different                                           channels, and no one gets it.

External: You have the double energy of a chimera.

Sleep is a joke.

Attention and motivation

Natural_pORNcrastinator.

Hyperfocusing immediately on things that make you interested, and your brain withdraws in a trance.

I'm gonna finish this article tomorROW SO I DONT CARE *SQUIRRELED*

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