How do you know if a child has ADD or ADHD?
November 8, 2009 by How To Treat ADHD
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Can you answer Jen’s question about ADHD?:
My son is 3 1/2 and is very hyper active. His teachers tell me that it could be the food I am giving him. He doesn’t get candy or soda what other foods should I avoid?
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My son is 3 1/2 and is very hyper active. His teachers tell me that it could be the food I am giving him. He doesn’t get candy or soda what other foods should I avoid?
ADHD Tips
ADHD Feedback: if he find it hard to concentrate he has ADD
ADHD Feedback: nevermind that, just give em hdtv & dsl.
ADHD Feedback: Inattention
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Often does not give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities.
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Often has trouble keeping attention on tasks or play activities.
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Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly.
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Often does not follow instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (not due to oppositional behavior or failure to understand instructions).
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Often has trouble organizing activities.
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Often avoids, dislikes, or doesn’t want to do things that take a lot of mental effort for a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).
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Often loses things needed for tasks and activities (e.g. toys, school assignments, pencils, books, or tools).
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Is often easily distracted.
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Is often forgetful in daily activities.
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Six or more of the following symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity have been present for at least 6 months to an extent that is disruptive and inappropriate for developmental level:
Hyperactivity
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Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat.
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Often gets up from seat when remaining in seat is expected.
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Often runs about or climbs when and where it is not appropriate (adolescents or adults may feel very restless).
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Often has trouble playing or enjoying leisure activities quietly.
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Is often “on the go” or often acts as if “driven by a motor”.
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Often talks excessively.
Impulsivity
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Often blurts out answers before questions have been finished.
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Often has trouble waiting one’s turn.
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Often interrupts or intrudes on others (e.g., butts into conversations or games).
ADHD Feedback: First, you should know that this is quickly becoming one of the most overhyped over diagnosed mental disorders. I don’t mean that in a negative way, but there are a lot of kids out their on meds that don’t need it.
Before you try going down that route do a couple of these things:
1. cut junk food
2. cut fast food
3. no soda, no caffiene
4. Healthy diet
5 exercise (Lots of it)
I find that a combination of these things usually will calm a child down 10 fold. Also, it will put them on the right track to having a healthy adult life.
However, there are kids out there who are ADD or ADHD. If you find you are still having trouble after you have done all of this, then go to the doctor. If anything you will help them by getting them started on the program already.
ADHD Feedback: there is now real test,only a good guess do be very carefull befor you concider medication.it is very dangerous.we are tring to wean my grandaughter from retlin now.she is having a very hard time.it would have been safer to give her coke….only if my daughter had done the research first,and the doctors didnt talk her into it she would have been fine.they do grow out of it.
ADHD Feedback: FOR ONE, AT 3 1/2 IT’S REALLY HARD TO PROPERLY LABEL ADD OR ADHD. ALOT OF THEIR ACTIONS/BEHAVIORS HAS TO DO W/ ACTING THEIR AGE, AS WELL AS A RESPONSE TO ANY CHANGES IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT. DOCTORS ARE OFTEN QUICK TO JUST WRITE A SCRIPT AND SEND YOU ON YOUR WAY. I HAVE A 12 Y/O DAUGHTER WHO DOES HAVE ADHD AND WAS DIAGNOSED ABOUT 4 YRS. AGO. I ALSO HAVE A 10 Y/O STEP SON THAT HAS BEEN MISDIAGNOSED MANY TIMES W/ VARIOUS MENTAL ILLNESSES. THE BIG PROBLEM IS THERE ARE SO MANY MENTAL ILLNESSES OUT THERE W/ THE SAME SYMPTOMS IT’S OFTEN HARD TO KNOW WHAT MAY BE THE ACTUAL PROBLEM. GIVE HIM SOME TIME TO BE A LITTLE BOY A LITTLE LONGER, AND IF YOU ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT IT YOURSELF, REALLY START CHECKING OUT CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS AND GET FEEDBACK FROM OTHER PARENTS WHOSE CHILD IS SEEN BY THAT DR. THERE ARE SO MANY SIDE EFFECTS W/ DRUGS THESE DAYS THAT MEDICATION SHOULD BE A LAST RESORT. GOOD LUCK!!
ADHD Feedback: Speak with your pediatrician and get a referral to a good child pychologist…They will be able to perform tests and evaluations to tell whether your child has this or not. And by all means, get a second opinion if they want to put your child on medication!!!
ADHD Feedback: OK, here’s how you tell…just t—-be right back…
ADHD Feedback: The term “ADHD” is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as a “mental illness”, and promotes it as a “disease” that requires “treatment”.
It is not a “disease”, despite claims or implications made by certain psychiatric or pharmaceutical organisations. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes “ADHD” as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or “chemical imbalance”.
“For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a ‘mental disorder’ is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry’s orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign.” Fred Baughman, MD., Neurologist & Pediatric Neurologist.
“Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone - not a good idea.” Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.
Such behavioural characteristics that Psychiatry created this unscientific “disease” from are, and always have been, generally considered “normal”. Now, it seems, inattention or “hyperactivity” (Hyperactivity means ‘excessively active’* — what is excessive? On whose authority?? It’s ridiculous!!) is abnormal, a “mental illness”.
For a rundown of the exact diagnostic criteria of “attention deficit disorder” visit:
For information on the junkscience behind psychiatric “testing” for “ADHD” visit:
For a list of what inattention COULD be attributed to (rather than some fraudulent “mental illness”) visit:
For more information, see;
“We are not “overdrugging” or misdiagnosing” ADHD. ADHD is a total, 100 percent fraud. The many millions of schoolchildren around the world who are being drugged have no disease.” Fred Baughman, Jr., M.D. Child Neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
“Parents are seldom told that Ritalin is ‘speed’—that it is pharmacologically classified with amphetamines, has the same effects, side effects, and risks. Yet this is well-known in the profession….” Dr. Peter R. Breggin & Ginger Ross Breggin, The War Against Children, P. 84.
“…But because ADD is so vaguely defined, even for a psychiatric disorder, it is tailor-made for bogus claims. There are, as the American Psychiatric Association’s latest diagnostic manual concedes, “no laboratory tests that have been established as diagnostic” for “Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.” Richard E. Vatz, Professor, Towson State University, “Attention Deficit Delirium,” The Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1994
“The diagnosis of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is entirely subjective… There is no test. It is just down to interpretation… The lines between an ADD sufferer and a healthy exuberant kid can be very blurred.” Dr. Joe Kosterich. Chairman of the Australian Medical Association. Sydney Morning Herald.
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Decoding Psychiatric Propaganda
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The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in 1998, after 31 scientific presentations concerning ADHD and its treatment, concluded, “There are no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction….”
The U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health states: “The precise causes (etiology) of mental disorders are not known” and that “there is no definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that can identify the illness.”
ADHD Feedback: There is no need to know. ADD and ADHD are not medical conditions, they are labels put on a category of behaviors. No matter the label, we all, children and adults, behave for the same reasons. Avoid anything with caffeine also, make sure that your child has a regular sleeping schedule. Make sure that your child is getting all of the right nutrition (veggies and fruits). Teach your child calm play reward good behavior, build calm behavior slowly.