Many people may only know about ADHD in the literal sense, thinking that children with ADHD have little effect, it is nothing more than naughty and active, and it will be good when they grow up. But the harm of ADHD is not just naughty and active, parents need to recognize the harm of ADHD, and know how to judge whether their child has ADHD.
What are the adverse effects of ADHD
1. Harm to individuals
Children with mild ADHD are simply unable to concentrate on learning and cannot take the initiative to learn, resulting in a decline in academic performance; Inability to control one's behavior, manifested as disobedience and discrimination. Children with severe ADHD have a significant decline in academic performance, cannot follow the class, and have difficulty completing primary and junior high school. Provoking misconduct and interfering with others. As we age, we are vulnerable to adverse influences and temptations because of our inability to control ourselves, and we can get into fights, lie and steal, and even go down the path of crime.
2. Harm to the family
Children with ADHD not only have poor academic performance, but also are tired of school, truancy, and disrupt the order of the classroom, so they are often called by teachers to criticize, which makes parents ashamed and annoyed, and after returning home, they scold and stick education for their children. Some high prices hire tutors, wasting a lot of time and money is not helpful; Some make children feel antagonistic and hateful towards their parents, affecting family harmony.
3. Harm to the school
In schools, children with ADHD often disrupt classroom order, fight, steal, and destroy, with little success even if the teacher spends a lot of energy. If there are more such children in a class, the quality of teaching will inevitably be affected, making the teacher particularly annoyed, always wanting them to repeat the grade, or even expelling them.
4. Harm to society
If children with ADHD are not treated in time, due to poor self-control ability, impulsivity, leisure and hard work, and greed for enjoyment, they often have a high crime rate and have repeatedly become habitual offenders, affecting social stability and people's personal and property safety.
How to distinguish between children
Naughty and active or suffering from ADHD
Too much activity: ta may just be a "bear child"
Preschool children are generally energetic and active, and some "bear children" like to be lively and like activities. Parents can take their child to the hospital if they feel that their activity level is unusually active and tolerable.
The key to identification: whether the child can control his or her behavior and whether the behavior is purposeful.
Children with ADHD are active in any situation, including public spaces, classrooms, and other areas that require quiet, unable to control their words and actions, and act purposelessly. Under normal circumstances, children with lively personalities can control their behavior in appropriate situations, and even if they show hyperactive behavior, they have a certain purpose. Therefore, parents can pay attention to the performance of their children "at home" and "in public".
Inattention: tic disorders have commonalities with ADHD
Small movements in class and a penchant for talking are typical manifestations of inattention, but did you know? Patients with tic disorders can also have these manifestations, they will be frequently hyperactive or involuntarily make sounds, often mistaken for children with hyperactivity.
Key to differentiation: patients with tic disorders are involuntary and completely out of control; Children with ADHD are able to control their behavior for a period of time.
Children with tic disorder may suddenly shake their heads, blink, clear their voices, twist their necks, grin, shrug their shoulders, kick their legs, and convulse all over the body, which look unnatural and are in a state of wanting to control but cannot control; It is important to note that about half of patients with tic disorders have co-developed ADHD.
Poor academic performance: the possibility of "mental retardation" is not ruled out
Children with mental retardation (intellectual disability) are also accompanied by inability to concentrate and hyperactivity; Usually, ADHD will affect a child's academic performance, giving people the illusion of mental retardation, and the two may cause confusion.
Identification key: children with mental retardation have obvious language and motor development delays, a detailed understanding of the developmental history can help determine the disease, and the IQ of the intelligence test is less than 70 can be used to identify. In general, such children have obvious deformities in shape, such as the distance between the eyes is too wide, the position of the ears is too low, etc., and most of them are caused by congenital factors.
In addition, some children with ADHD in the intelligence test of their IQ is also less than or equal to 70, parents do not easily think that their mental development is delayed, the level of score is related to hyperactivity and attention state during the test, it is best to go to the hospital for review or wait for the state to be normal and then tested.
ADHD can be continued into adulthood if not treated in time, and in adulthood it can manifest as academic waste, social maladaptation and emotional naivety, and fighting with each other; Anxiety in adulthood, poor self-esteem personality disorder, interpersonal tension, lack of achievement in poor socioeconomic status, so it is necessary to treat early and must not be taken lightly.