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By Angie Dixon
"But symptoms are just things everyone does." Have you heard this? If you haven't, keep listening. I'm sure you will soon, probably from someone who means well. And it is true that not everyone who is overly hyperactive, inattentive or impulsive has ADHD.
It's also true that some people with these symptoms most certainly do have ADHD. So how do you tell when it's really ADHD?
Diagnosis of requires that the behavior be inconsistent with a person's age.
Suspected behaviors must also begin before age seven and continue for at least six months.
But the main thing required for an diagnosis, if all other factors are present, is that the behaviors must create a real handicap in at least two areas of a person's life. For a child this could include in the schoolroom, on the playground, at home, in the community (for instance in church), or in social settings.
What does all this mean? It means that yes, it's possible that someone with "symptoms" doesn't have ADHD. It also means that there are specific diagnostic criteria for determining whether is present.
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specialist who asseses your child for will consider whether these possible behaviors are excessive, long-term and pervasive--whether they are more common in your child than in other, non-ADHD children of the same age, whether they are a continuous problem and not a situational response, and whetehr they occur in more than one setting.
The answers to all of these questions and the pattern of behavior your child exhibits will be compared to diagnostic criteria in the DSM-IV-TR, a diagnostic manual for psychiatric disorders. Article Source: http://www.upublish.info About the Author:
Angie Dixon
Angie Dixon is a writer and mom of an son, Jack. For a free report on helping your son, see Angie's site "That's My Son!" at http://www.Raising-the-ADHD-boy.com.
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