Symptomatology of ADHD in adults
The ADHD diagnosis for adults differs from that of children is central to children collecting outwardly visible symptoms: restlessness, forgetfulness, does not remain in the case, interrupts others, results of performance and personality tests.
The picture does not appeal to every age the same, but changes with age. Hyperactivity and impulsivity tend to differ a general power and concentration. Almost all adult ADHD patients feel internally restless and driven. In the professional and private life they often do not reach the goals, which they had originally inserted. Many are suffering, particularly among the social consequences of ADHD:
- Worsening training and career progression, as it corresponds to the talent
- Difficulties in working life with frequent job change
- Increased divorce rate
- Many moving, relocation
Adults affected by ADHD often have significant difficulties in everyday life. Examples are:
Organization / thought
- Lack of sense of time, delays and hectic schedule before
- Dull everyday tasks are put off or not done.
- Striking disorder or overcompensate by compulsive perfectionism
- Disorganization - especially when multiple tasks simultaneously pending
Attention disorder
- Working with volatile inexplicable collapses
- Forgetting task of working with incomplete results
- Lack of attention, especially in group situations
Working memory
- Forgetfulness can not retrieve memories, such as “I know it, but it can not tell.”
- Clerical errors, rotation of letters and numbers
- The person concerned carries out diaries, cards, note books and note with it.
Increased perception
- Very high sensitivity for certain sensations (e.g., smell, taste, sound), but also for atmospheric tension in all relationships
- Often gifted intuitive, creative and intelligent
- Mood and performance are strongly dependent on external factors
- Temper outbursts in each direction
Low stress and frustration tolerance
- Exaggerated need for excessive sleep
- Problems, adapt to new situations
- Persistent mystery
Addiction and coercive behavior
- Many compulsive behaviors
- Experiment, the performance with high amounts of chocolate, coffee, cola, energy drinks and nicotine to increase
- Some “treat” their inner tension with alcohol, cannabis or cocaine and aggravate the situation even more.
High impulsivity
- First act, then think
- Other verbal provocation by derailment
- Increased accident propensity
- Disregard of rules, laws, regulations
- Can bad brakes: Shopping Spree, risky driving, etc.
Hyperactivity / inability to relax
- Inner restlessness, physical stress (lots of sports)
- Can not sit still (for example, at the dentist, eating, on an airplane)
- Drums with your fingers, playing with pens, fumbled around in itself
- Powerful speech urge to digress from the subject, hard to break
- Boredom in peace with artificial situations hyperactivity
Tags: ADHD in adults, Symptomatology
