Melissa, a 10-year-old girl, is brought in to the clinic because she is failing in school. "Melissa is hyper; she acts silly to get attention, at times even by deliberately offending people. If nothing else works, she touches and pulls at them," her mother says. "She talks constantly, and can't wait her turn." The doctor asks Melissa to draw a picture of her house and the people in it while he talks to her mother. Melissa immediately turns to the nurse and asks her what her name is, why she isn't wearing a white lab coat, and "What is that thing on the wall?" When the nurse reminds her of the picture, she begins asking questions such as "Can I also draw my dog? Can I draw the sun? What about a bird?". When she finishes, the drawing is chaotic …show more content…
The lower scoring from these teens indicates the prominent negative impact ADHD can have on many parts of their lives. Not only does the disorder effect the victim – ADHD can influence family life as well. According to child/teen psychiatric health experts Pelham WE Jr, Faraone SV, and Podoloski CL; "...the presence of a child with ADHD results in increased likelihood of disturbances to family and martial functioning, disrupted parent-child relationships, reduced parenting efficacy, and increased levels of parent stress, particularly when ADHD is comorbid with conduct problems. Furthermore, ADHD in children was reported to predict depression in mothers and is associated with increased parental alcohol consumption." (Harpin i3) This shows that the disorder isn't just influential on its victim, and can be really difficult to deal with for parents and siblings. Unfortunately, ADHD also effects not only the victims' social life, but society as well. According to a recent survey, almost 50% of young adults with ADHD did not complete high school, abused drugs or alcohol, attempted suicide, transmitted an STD, got fired from a job, got their license suspended, and are 65% more likely to be incarcerated. These events prevalent in the affected person's life affect themselves just as much as it affects the people around them. This shows how ADHD affects all aspects of life for the victim, the victim's family, and society as a
Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, otherwise known as ADHD, is the most common psychiatric condition effecting 9.5% of school-aged children in the United States (intuniv, 2013). If the disorder goes untreated, it will cause more long-term side effects and difficulties for the individual as an adult. Adults who have this condition face several adversities in every day life, such as impulsive behavior, low self-esteem and poor work performance. People are not aware of the complications that come with ADHD in adults. Not knowing the symptoms of the disease can cause people to not be sympathetic when they are interacting with someone with disorder.
She begins to tear strips of the wallpaper and continues to do so all night until morning yards of the paper are stripped off. Her sister-in-law Jennie offers to help, but at this point the narrator is territorially protective of the wallpaper. She locks herself in the room and is determined to strip the wall bare. As she is tearing the wallpaper apart she sees strangled heads in the pattern shrieking as the wallpaper is being torn off. At this point, she is furious and even contemplates jumping out the window, yet even in her euphoric state, she realizes this gesture could be misinterpreted.
She secretly hopes that her aunt and cousin will give her other few surprises. She also hopes that her aunt will really appreciate the drawing. The morning of Christmas Ellen was disappointed when she only received the pack of white paper. Later that night she over heard her aunt telling her daughter that even though the painting is silly and cheap looking they must pretend to appreciate it. She was crushed because earlier that morning her aunt had pretended to really like it.
At least one in four families in the U.S. is affected by mental illnesses. Unfortunately there is no cure for this range of illnesses, which have been around for thousands of years. Of the American adult population, 5.4 percent have a serious mental illness. These health conditions are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, behavior, or some combination of these. They are also associated with distress and sometimes impaired functioning. In 1990 the total cost of mental health services in the U.S. was $148 billion. According to a new report by the Mental Health Foundation, one in five children suffer from a mental health problem. Attention deficit hyperactive disorder is a mental illness that is diagnosed mainly in young children and doesn’t always disappear in adulthood.” All we know is that this genetic, inherited condition [ADHD] is not due to brain damage at all but rather a variation in how the brain functions.” Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) includes symptoms and characteristics that can be placed in one of three categories: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. These characteristics commonly leave a person with ADHD with lack of attention span, easily distracted, fidgety, struggling to stay seated, having trouble engaging in calm activities, impatient, and talking excessively or out of turn. A new study by researchers says that hyperactive children have behavioral differences due to under active parts of their brain, a biological malfunction, rather than due to way they were brought up. This was revealed by a magnetic scanning device that allowed researchers to look at the brains of children diagnosed with ADHD. These studies and statistics reinforce the claim that mental illnesses are not invented simply to justify drugging of children and a disease that needs be educated to the public for better understanding. Rather, ADHD is an illness that affects many people throughout their lives. This topic is often misunderstood by the public. The media and medical community need to educate the positive side of this controversy and not just show the opposing view, which often times misrepresented by the media.
Later, Dr. Sacks pays a visit to the couple at their home to try and further understand the situation. Dr. Sacks questions him with cartoons, with people on the television, and even resorting to the pictures on his very walls. Dr. P. only recognizes a few of the faces that hang on his very walls. This is quite shocking to the doctor; Mrs. P. then calls them for coffee and cakes.... ... middle of paper ...
Most medications used for the disorders mentioned earlier were supposed to be used for adults with schizophrenia (source #2). Antipsychotics tend to be the most powerful and toxic drugs (source #2) and people give them to their children. These medications hardly seem fit for an adult, let alone the young people in America. It looks as though parents want to drug their children until they are who the parents want to see. There is a 53% increase in people ages 4 – 17 being diagnosed with ADHD (source #4) in the past decade alone. This makes it look like there is not a rise in children with ADHD, but a rise in people looking for any excuse to put kids on drugs in order to calm their child. There is no way it is possible that there is 1 in 5 high school boys who have ADHD, that number is unfathomable (source #4). Medicines used to solve these problems are often very addictive and can cause withdrawals, showing that this is simply not a normal cure but an addictive drug.
Just because your child is active, does not always mean to assume they have this disorder. Even though more and more kids are being diagnosed with ADHD, experts are saying that it’s often not the kid’s problem. Some cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are coming back on how well of parenting the child is receiving. “When I first diagnose a child with ADHD, I tell the parents they need to learn behavior techniques, whether I’m prescribing medication or not,” (Patricia Quinn, M.D.)
...ictions that early intervention can reduce crime and actually divert children and teens from a path of criminal behavior (Nauert.) It is emphasized that when professionals, teachers, and other people involved with youth and young adults neglect to recognize and treat ADHD, there are likely to be detrimental consequences for both mental health and social outcomes. These results include the consumption and high costs of resources that must be used to respond to these behaviors. ADHD is perceived to be an easily treatable condition that is associated with readily accessible interventions which can be extremely successful in treating symptoms and behavior problems. Because of the failure to recognize and/or treat ADHD, however, the wide range of potentially negative effects of the behavioral problems it generates create significant obstacles for society and individuals.
The American heritage Dictionary defines Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as, “an attention deficit disorder in which hyperactivity is present.” Attention Deficit Disorder is defined as, “A syndrome, usually diagnosed in childhood, characterized by a persistent pattern of impulsiveness, a short attention span, and often hyperactivity, and interfering especially with academic, occupational, and social performance.” ADHD is most often diagnosed during childhood and was formerly believed to have lessened and ended as the child matured but recent studies have found that between 35 and 50 % of all cases persist into adulthood.
Signs of the depth of the narrator's mental illness are presented early in the story. The woman starts innocently enough with studying the patterns of the paper but soon starts to see grotesque images in it, "There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a...
Research shows “children with ADHD have been shown to have difficulty with social interactions with peers and family members” (Kollins, Scott H) The thinking of someone with ADHD versus a person without might be different it’s harder for people with this disorder to communicate to the person that doesn’t understand their thinking. Also, “many ADHD children show deficits in both intellectual and behavioral functioning.” (Phares, Vicky) It’s harder with this disorder to keep concentrated on one specific task if it doesn’t interest them. It has shown through studies that children with ADHD “score an average of seven to fifteen points below normal children on standardized intelligence tests.” (phares, Vicky) But that isn’t because children with this disorder aren't as smart, it's because they have inattention and impulsiveness. But, ADHD can have some advantages. For instance, when someone with ADHD becomes interested in a task they can have an incredible drive to do their best and get it done. They can also get something something called “Hyper-Focus” when they get hyper-focused on a task it is hard for them to let it go until it is complete. This helps the individual to stay controlled and directed to accomplish a long-term
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a disorder that affects 5.29% of the population(Polanczyk, Lima, Horta, Biederman & Rohde, 2007). The disorder makes it hard for children to concentrate, learn and interact. A disorder like this can be debilitating for children making it hard for them to complete almost mundane tasks. However, a disorders can be equally, if not more stressful on the parent of the child. Any parent is put though a lot with their child but the pressure is doubled and maybe even tripled when the child needs you constantly. Being a parent of a child with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder extremely strenuous and grueling at every stage of the child’s life continuing into adulthood.
The narrator, already suffering from a "nervous condition," is forced to stay in her bedroom for most of the story. Her husband does not let her do anything that may take the least bit of energy because she needs to concentrate her energy on getting well. Her mental condition quickly deteriorates from the original "nervous condition" to complete insanity due to this isolation. As the narrator begins to see figures behind the wallpaper, the reader realizes that the wallpaper is a manifestation of her condition.
... ADHD, it is not identical with child ADHD. The rate of substance use and gender difference are different between child ADHD and adult ADHD. But these two differences do not affect the validity of adult ADHD; it instead provides more evidence. Based on the fact that genes affect human’s susceptibility to ADHD, parents of ADHD children are more likely to have ADHD than parents of non-ADHD children. Genes also influence the persistence of ADHD from childhood to adulthood. Therefore, due to the stability of gene, ADHD children should also have ADHD in their adulthood. The treatment response is also similar between children, adolescent and adult patients. Both the ADHD children and adults show significant response to methylphenidate and DMI. However, there is not a consistent diagnosis. Thus, the future study needs to form a consistent and effective diagnosis for ADHD.
Emotional and behavioral disorders manifest from various sources. For some children, the core of these disorders is rooted in such factors as “family adversity...poverty, caregiving instability, maternal depression, family stress…marital discord…dysfunctional parenting patterns…abuse and neglect” (Fox, Dunlap & Cushing, 2002, p. 150). These factors are stressors that affect children both emotionally and behaviorally. Students have their educational performance and academic success impeded by such stressors once in school, which creates even more stress as they find themselves frustrated and failing. As a result, problem behaviors may manifest that can be described as disruptive, impulsive, pre-occupied, resistant to change, aggressive, intimidating, or dishonest. Such behaviors may also inflict self-harm.