‘ADHD’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 12

Q: Hi, I have a question about unintentional strange movements of a person’s mouth towards their back every 10-20 seconds. Whenever my relative, a 7-year old boy, is doing something, his mouth opens on one side towards his back. It happens like that every 10-20 seconds. He is fine when playing or doing other activities. [...]

Q: I am a 19-year-old female, and recently a friend suggested that I might have ADHD. We have been friends a long time, and she has just noticed that my symptoms match her cousin who has recently been diagnosed. My symptoms are lack of attention, chatting a lot, unable to finish tasks, butt in a [...]

Q: My son is an overall good kid, but over the past year or so he has been getting into a lot of fights. It seems he is the one who starts most of them. He has done community service twice for this. He is ADHD and takes Focalin 10 mg 3 x day. He [...]

Q: My son is 8 years old. Last year he was diagnosed with ADHD. He was having trouble focusing, relaxing, sleeping and social interactions with other kids at school. He even falsely failed a hearing test at school because he couldn’t focus long enough to raise his hand at the beep. He tends to speak [...]

Q: Hi. I have read everything I have been able to find about ADD/ADHD. At first I began reading it because I believed my daughter was ADHD. Upon discovering all the information I have realized that I fit the symptoms myself. Others in my immediate family have also been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD this year so [...]