today I want to talk to you about ADHD
and here are four new facts that you
need to know
so like I said today I'm going to talk
with you about ADHD and I am going to be
reading you some information from the
new dsm-5 and that's what I meant about
new facts about ADHD these four facts
will come straight from the dsm-5 now
they diagnose or describe the diagnosis
of ADHD as follows a persistent pattern
of inattention and/or hyperactivity
impulsivity that interferes with
functioning or development now what that
really means is that we if we struggle
with ADHD we really struggle to complete
tasks to stay on task to stay focused
it's really difficult to sit still and
to remain calm during situations we
often fidget a lot it's feel really
Restless but something that I want to
talk about as I go through these new
facts about ADHD know that if you worry
that you struggle with this please seek
professional help and find someone who
works with it specifically and can test
you appropriately because many of the
symptoms can be very similar to those
with depression anxiety learning
disabilities there can be a lot of
overlaps we want to make sure that we're
getting properly diagnosed so please
seek professional help so the first new
fact about ADHD is that symptoms can now
occur before age 12 so onset can be
before age 12 whereas in the DSM prior
it was before age 7 so what that really
says to me is that they understand that
there are more people struggling and it
can take longer for ADHD to develop
because if they're saying now we're
giving you till age 12 to have the six
symptoms for six months which is part of
the diagnostic criteria it means that
they find that people are still
struggling with ADHD when they're young
they're just not getting to the
diagnostic criteria by age 7 the second
new fact about ADHD is that they have
changed a criteria to say now that
several symptoms must occur in two
settings rather than there just being
some impairment in two settings so my
guess would be that they did this
because they felt the ADHD might be
something that was potentially being
overdiagnosed or diagnosed too early
before all the cried
period that they felt needed to be met
was actually being met so instead of
just having some impairment
now several symptoms in several
different areas of our lives have to be
present at the same time the third new
fact about ADHD is that they have kind
of increased the information that's
available to us clinicians in the new
dsm-5 and what they've added is new more
lengthy descriptions about what ADHD
will look like as people get older so
what that says to me is that they felt
that a lot of adults struggling with
ADHD weren't being diagnosed because it
appears different in adults versus
children which I can tell you is very
common among a lot of different
diagnoses kids will say I feel I just
feel really irritable and you know
they'll be really lashing out and they
actually struggle with depression where
we know many adults are really lethargic
and kind of quiet and withdrawn so
different diagnoses can appear
differently depending on our age and so
they're definitely making that very
clear in the new DSM for ADHD and the
final fourth new fact about ADHD is that
they have changed the diagnostic
criteria for those of us who are older
and being diagnosed with this so for any
of us
aged 17 or older they are now only
requiring that we have five symptoms
persisting for six months rather than
the original six so they've made it a
little bit easier for us to meet the
criteria and my guess on why they're
doing this kind of goes back to the fact
I talked about before when they've
increased the deserve added in new
descriptions for adults because it
presents differently so they probably
took away one because they understand
that it kind of presents a little
differently than a dozen children and so
therefore we only need five symptoms for
six months to be diagnosed with ADHD as
an adult living with ADHD isn't
something that's going to hold you back
people lead wonderful and successful
lives and you can be another one of
those people doing that so we just want
to make sure we get all the information
so that we can get treated properly and
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