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A CALL TO ATTENTION

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A CALL TO ATTENTION

Is a complete cure likely?
ADD is a life-span disability. One can’t outgrow it. While childhood hyperactivity may diminish in adults, low attention span and impulse con¬trol problems can persist. If undiagnosed, it leads to secondary problems: emotional distress, drug abuse, academic failure, vocational problems or marital discord. Nevertheless, you can learn to master strategies to function effectively and lead a productive life.
Good to know
The exact causes are unknown. But factors that are implicated as cause or catalyst include:
1. Minimal and subtle brain dam¬age during foetal development and early infancy, caused by infection, mechanical damage, premature birth and so on.
2. Food additives, colouring agents, preservatives and sugar.
3. Prolonged emotional depriva¬tion, stressful life events {may precipitate or perpetuate ADD).
How can I distinguish symptoms from everyday aggravations?
Not everyone who puts things off or has a messy house has ADD… We all have these “symptoms” from time to time. You might complain, ‘Oh, my desk is such a disaster — I must have ADD!’ It’s not that simple.
Those who truly have the disor¬der wish they could finish a task. They’re struggling even when their lives aren’t otherwise stress¬ful. And it’s the degree of the struggle that clinches a diagnosis for ADD
Isn’t it a boys’ disorder?
No, it hits both sexes equally (even in children). We think of it as a boys’ disease because we have defined it in terms of the ways boys act (being disruptive at school, for example}! By the teens and adulthood, just as many girls and women report ADD symptoms. â€?