#adhd

#adhd

Have you ever felt the need to start a task, but you just can't get to that first step? Maybe it's a household chore, a course you've wanted to pursue for a while, even something incredibly trivial-starting simply feels impossible. This experience, a combination of overwhelm and mental freeze, defines the reality of millions of people around the world. And there's a name for it: task initiation paralysis.

When child psychiatrists gather, presentations on ADHD almost always orbit around the use of stimulants- methylphenidate and amphetamine in their many formulations. At this year's Texas Society of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists meeting, I decided to flip the script and devote a presentation to the less celebrated options: the non‑stimulants. That choice reflects the changing prescription landscape. Stimulants still account for roughly 90 percent of all ADHD scripts, but from 2019‑2023 the annual fills for non‑stimulants climbed by about 60 percent, triple the growth rate of stimulants.

Much has been written about the relationship between social media use and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It requires no citations to state that social media use has increased over the last 20 years, as have diagnoses of ADHD. The question is whether there is any kind of meaningful relationship between the two. Correlations between events can sometimes mean nothing other than both events are related to something else, but not to each other.

"ICEBERG! Right ahead!!!" Perhaps you remember this famous line from the iconic 1997 movie, "Titanic." Panicked, the ship's captain alerted the passengers and crew that they would soon strike a nearby, mostly invisible iceberg with 90% of it obscured underwater. Within 30 seconds of sighting the iceberg, the ship made impact, sending everybody scrambling for safety amid the frigid waters. Had they been able to see more than only 10% of the iceberg and adjust their course, disaster might have been averted.

Reformed hellraiser Shaun Ryder has revealed the childhood trauma behind his life of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.

Your person with ADHD has spent their waking time absorbing words like lazy, thoughtless, and unreliable into their skin. They call themselves even worse.

With fewer mental pauses, the ADHD brain feels emotions more intensely. Rejection sensitivity can turn helplessness into self-blame or shame.

The use of prescription psychostimulants by adults increased between 2019 and 2022, with 35-to-64-year-old women experiencing the largest increase of 41 percent.

The claim is that individuals may be prematurely diagnosed with conditions that, although meeting criteria for a disease, will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime.

This wasn't born from some dramatic rock-bottom moment with technology. I wasn't doom-scrolling myself into despair.

Seeking a late diagnosis often stems from struggling individuals aiming to understand themselves better, aiding their health management and self-acceptance.

"I never really fit the mold, and martial arts is one of the very few things in my life besides music and art that made sense to me."

We have found that nicotine patches are useful along a whole spectrum of impairments, like people with ADHD, Alzheimer's, and people with age-related memory and cognitive impairment.

Burnout manifests uniquely in those with ADHD, often leading to social withdrawal, sensory overload, and heightened people-pleasing tendencies as energy levels diminish.

Clinically, ADHD diagnoses have risen in the past years, raising questions about the motives behind the increase and the role of social media.