10 Commonly Misdiagnosed ADHD Symptoms
Mood swings. Sleeplessness. Oppositional behavior. If you or your child exhibits these ADHD symptoms, you may rightfully get a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Or you may have another condition altogether. How to tell if your doctor got your evaluation right.
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For the adults with ADHD or parents of struggling teens out there – many of these misdiagnosed symptoms speak only towards how they present in young children and symptoms that don’t appear until late teens & adulthood are omitted entirely.
For example – ‘Problems at School’ should also say ‘AND WORK’ – no one is going to think an adult struggling at work despite previous academic success can’t pay attention, much less have a learning disability. Both problems at school AND WORK stem from the same ADHD root causes in executive functioning.
Symptoms misdiagnosed in adults only, notably such as ADDICTION/ALCOHOLISM are omitted entirely and often treated (unsuccessfully) as the main diagnosis instead of as a comorbidity of untreated adult ADHD. Saying this from first-hand experience, as no amount of 12-step programs or inpatient rehab (where I wasn’t allowed to take my ADHD medication, no less) successfully treated my addiction until I ALSO sought treatment (beyond medication) for ADHD as an adult.