about four to five percent of adults
have ADHD but many of these people
actually don't know that they have it
and there are different reasons to
explain this for example ADHD begins
during childhood it's possible in fact
it's not unusual for the condition that
have remained undiagnosed throughout
childhood and adolescence either because
people weren't as aware as we are today
about the condition and they may have
thought for example that a child is just
lazy which of course was not the case or
it may be because the condition was just
not severe enough to draw that much
attention so another reason is that many
people live a great life and they have a
lot of success professionally despite
the radiation this is important to
remember there are certainly milder and
more moderate forms of ADHD sometimes
they don't really get in the way of
enjoying life and they're in fact much
closer to what we could call a
personality personality trait for lack
of a better term you know someone for
example who might be a bit dreamy
someone who tends to be a scattered have
many thoughts at once and so on and so
forth so in these cases slapping an ADHD
diagnosis or a label onto the person
probably won't be of much help and you
could very well leave that person
without a treatment and most certainly
without medication and it would be
absolutely perfectly fine now everyone
is talking about ADHD these days and
professionals and non-professionals tend
to see it everywhere which sometimes
mail eat the treatments that are just
too intense given the lack of severity
of the condition if you can manage just
fine if you have no significant problems
with friends at work then you shouldn't
feel pressured into looking for clinical
services but if your condition gets in
the way of you enjoying life enjoying
friendships doing well at school or at
work then you might want to consider
getting assessed for ADHD
well symptoms of ADHD include for
example trouble concentrating or
focusing trouble adapting quickly to the
change being disorganized having trouble
managing stress having trouble
completing tasks or tolerating
frustration feeling Restless being
impulsive or having frequent mood swings
so now you'll notice that these symptoms
when you take them individually or not
in any way unique we can all have it in
fact we all do have days when we have
trouble focusing a days when we have
trouble dealing with stress or when we
feel restless so it's not a TC that's
just normal life now another point to
keep in mind is that these symptoms are
also not spectacular in the sense that
they wouldn't necessarily make someone
stand out and seem to be different from
others around them so again it's all a
matter of severity if your symptoms lead
to suffering either because you suffer
or because others around you suffer then
there's certainly some value in getting
assessed don't forget that these
symptoms even if they are intense don't
mean that you have a DC because there
are many other conditions that can lead
to similar symptoms the worst thing you
could do is probably to begin treatment
based on a simple screening instead of a
proper assessment by a mental health
professional