Personality and ADHD
Where does ADHD beginning and your personality stop? When does a lively and busy child turn in to a hyperactive child? Personally I think that our neurological abilities and disabilities are our personality because its difficult to be a social, outward going person if you have a severe stutter. So when I saw this press release about forthcoming research I was puzzled.
“Children with personalities marked by aggressiveness, mood swings, a sense of alienation and a need for excitement may be at greater risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or conduct disorder.“
As ADHD and Conduct Disorder are fairly nebulous diagnosis and personality traits is not a precise science either it seems difficult to say one ends and the other starts.
The study behind this press release has not been published so it is difficult to comment further on the research.
http://counsellingresource.com/features/archives/2006/drugs/adhd-psychosis-debate/
Find Out More:
Books:
- Beyond Ritalin: Facts About Medication and Other Strategies for Helping Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders
- Ritalin Is Not The Answer: A Drug-Free, Practical Program for Children Diagnosed with ADD or ADHD
- You And Your A.d.d. Child How To Understand And Help Kids With Attention Deficit Disorder
- ADHD: Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
- The Attention Deficit Answer Book: The Best Medications and Parenting Strategies for Your Child
March 23rd, 2006
ADD / ADHD
Comments on: Personality and ADHD
As a child I knew I was diffferent from my brother and older sister. They would laugh when I tried to read & copy them an reread their reading assignments by age 5. I had lisp(sp?) and when teased I would substitute words if I was asked to repeat what I said.
By the time I entered school via drawing pictiures in my mind & was able to read with a higher class (when I went to 1st grade I read with the 3rd grades0.. Still to this day whether I talk or listen it as if I am using an old time typewriter ribbon. As people talk or I talk it is put on this old typwriter ribbon. If I get lost when a person talks, I’m stuck back there even if they have gone on talking & jokingly I will tell them, “I need to mole you.” I must take them back to where I got lost or confused & then get them to help me catch up to where they are now. In my mind I have always drawn pictures or put words on this typewriter ribbon.
I am 61 and have a BA in history & sociology, BS horticulture Clemson, Business degree in accounting, passed CPA, MBA from The Citadel, MS in engineering Carneige Mellon, masters engineering U of Ptiisburgh, and after a botched operation I went and got a computer systems engineer degree. What bothered me the moist was at the Eastern girl school the Andersons in 1965 did some tests. I was failing miserably. I figured out they were zeroing in on me, so I asked them. They were amazed given the severity of my dylexia that I had been able to do so well in school & made it that far in college. Unknown to me it was put in my official transcript. I wanted to transfer from The Citadel to University of VA Business School. UVA turned me down because they said they were not equipment to handle my learning disability. Naturally my father went to court to get that Dyslexic issue removed.
I never used dyslexia as an excuse. Children can learn to work around it and not use it as an excuse. Why is dyslexia and bipolar so often used as a natural concurrent counterpart??
Jenny Reynolds
Posted by: Reynolds November 1st, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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