Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

A condition in which a person (usually a child) has an unusually high activity level and a short attention span. People with the disorder may act impulsively and may have learning and behavioral problems.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you suffer from what it's called "Career ADD." This means "Career Attention Deficiency Disorder.
This questionnaire includes 9 groups of behavioral disorders including attention deficiency disorder with hyperactivity.
This is a wonderful story of human achievement by a kid who battled much of his early life against the stigma of hyper-activity and attention deficiency disorder.
In Dr Christopher Green's bible for learner parents,Toddler Taming,he regales us with examples of troubled parents visiting his surgery desperate for his advice to turn parenthood into the idyllic, tranquil and self- gratifying experience that they expected it to be.There's the dad who requests an appointment to hear more about his son's attention deficiency disorder,but walks out before the end because he has something important to do,and the father who can't sit still, taps his feet on the floor and his hands on the table, while he tells Dr Green about how his daughter has been described as disruptive and too loud in class.
IT WON'T be long before George Best topples drunkenly off the wagon again and we now know that Gazza has or has had Tourette's Syndrome, Attention Deficiency Disorder, Compulsive Obsessive Disorder, Bulimia and alcoholism (otherwise, he's fine).
ADD, attention deficiency disorder, affects as many as five per cent of all school pupils, yet remains a controversial subject with many doctors.

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