Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD, and ADD with hyperactivity or ADHD, afflicts many children who may continue to bring on this disorder to schooling age or even adulthood. Those with concern for the child can learn to identify and accept a number of ADD behavior disorders to help them understand the childs plight better. These psychiatric and neurological disorders may be isolated or combined, the latter entailing more understanding and attention.
According to the National Institute of Mental Health of the NIH, these ADD behavior disorders include bipolar disorder, the Tourette Syndrome, the ODD or opposite defiant disorder, conduct disorder, learning disabilities, anxiety and depression.
An ADD sufferer may have recurring mood swings in the extreme, from the down side of depression to the high manic activity identified with bipolar disorder. This psychiatric disturbance in the childs mood subjects the child to the manic-depressive experience of extreme depression bordering on suicide, to the hypomania of rapid aggressive mood. The Tourette Syndrome, a neurological disorder, is a combination of repetitive tics and mannerisms like blinking, facial tics, snorting, obsessive cursing, throat clearing, sniffing. The child with ODD or oppositional defiant disorder will always be defiant and non-conforming, short-tempered, disobedient, argumentative, and confrontational. Other conduct disorders that may be associated with ADD make the child unaccepting or unreceptive of social norms and is thus usually outcast. The child is prone to stealing or fighting or bullying and other acts of aggressiveness. ADD behavior disorder also comes in the purview of learning disabilities that are manifested in difficulties in solving math problems, writing theme papers, memorizing and reciting prose and poetry, singing nursery rhymes. Bring all these difficulties and disorders together, and it is only inevitable that the child becomes almost always anxious, anxious to correct or anxious to please, the generally socially-unacceptable behavior. Misunderstood and often blamed, the child regresses to depression.
While ADD is no longer considered a rare condition, the underlying and attendant anti-social behavior usually alienates the sufferer unless the ADD condition is diagnosed early and established to be such, with medication and therapy ensuing.
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