Posted by mila on April 18, 2001, at 3:07:27
In reply to ADD or Anxiety?, posted by mist on April 18, 2001, at 2:16:45
Hi mist,
ADHD is a developmental disorder, and anxiety is not. Children with ADHD are first identified as different from their peers around age 3 or 4. The symptoms later become increasingly obvoius during the school years.
What you are describing doesn't look like ADHD to me, but only a doctor would be able to tell with more certainty.
Both medication and psychosocial treatments for ADHD and anxiety disorders are totally opposite. ADHD patiens are taking stimulants, and anxiety sufferers take 'calming' drugs. ADHD sufferers do not avoid people, they just do not listen to others, or blurt answers before questions have been completed, anxiety sufferers might avoid people associated with fear or anxiety.
In case you'd get diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, you'd be recommended cognitive-behavioral therapy to learn new behavioral and thinking patterns and new stress-coping skills, drug treatment to reduce symptoms of anxiety ( antidepressants and/or benzodiazepines), and other treatments (such as managing stress through rest, exercise, nutrition, social support, moderate alcohol or other drug intake, etc)
I wish you the very best of luck. I am an anxiety sufferer myself.
mila
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