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Author:
Joshua Wills

ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This is a rather common disease that causes people to be over hyper and get easily distracted.

In order to make a diagnosis of ADHD you must go to a trained doctor who is aware of how to detect it. A lot of the symptoms that people get with ADHD are parts of other diseases and disorders.

Some people believe that ADHD is more of a problem with the mind that you just have to learn to get over. While there is usually mental issues that go along with having ADHD it isn’t a disease you can just decide to get over one day.

Some common symptoms of ADHD include:

Memory loss and forgetting where you put something or what exactly a page in a book said. This hurts school kids a lot when they forget what they studied for a test.

Being very hyper and not being able to sit still or be quiet.

Not listening to a speaker or ignoring someone when they are trying to talk with you.

One cure to ADHD is to be on a good diet. Being in shape and healthy will help keep you from being effected as much by ADHD and can help prevent it before it starts. There are also a lot of various drugs that can be taken that are made specifically to treat ADHD patients.

Another interesting cure is one on one coaching. Someone will help talk the patient through their life and help them overcome the obstacles that the ADHD throws in their way.

If you know someone who has ADHD recommend that they get it treated as soon as possible. While the disease usually doesn’t kill people it can greatly disrupt normal living and make life miserable for the person with ADHD.

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A Quick Note From The Publisher... If you like the article above, you may be interested in the following article which is also related to ADHD News... ADHD Newsflash: "Ignoring Useless Information Aids Memory" It was one of those "Well, DUH" moments for me. I was researching ADHD and came across the headline, "Ignoring Useless Information Aids Memory." Well, of course it does. But if you have ADHD, especially if you're a child with ADHD, determining useless information in the first place can be a major challenge. What's useless? If you're 10 and have ADHD, grammar is useless. But ignore it and your memory will really improve. You'll have a clear memory of flunking fifth grade English because of ADHD. Or maybe the author meant frivolous information--things like the names and life histories of all of Harry Potter's freinds. Those, indeed, could safely be ignored most of the time, even by an ADHD kid. So here I am, a ten year old ADHD fifth grader who hates grammar and loves Harry Potter. My attention deficit both makes it hard to focus on anything for long and makes it hard to shut things out. Too many stimuli. What do I do? If my ADHD makes it hard to study in class and remember my grammar, I take refuge in Harry Potter and enjoy his exploits and make friends with Ron and Hermione. I let my ADHD help me hyperfocus on what I do enjoy and get something out of. So while "Ignoring Useless information Aids Memory" may be a great breakthrough, it's not for those of us who have ADHD. We already know that ignoring much of what our ADHD brains pick up would help us. We don't avoid this ignoring because we don't want to do it. Everyone with ADHD--be we politicians, teachers, or just ADHD kids--want to focus and can't. I didn't read the article, because I was hyperfocused on something else. I'm just riffing on the headline. But it seems to me that knowing the problem is a long way from solving it, and telling ADHD people to "ignore" anything is not as helpful as it might seem...