| Adults with ADHD and their partners, spouses, family | | | | some unnecessary shopping or flit from one household |
| members and children often experience significant life | | | | chore to another without completing them. They are |
| difficulties without ever understanding that it is ADHD | | | | often short-tempered and intolerant with their loved |
| that is the core of the problem. This lack of | | | | ones. The can be quite insensitive, saying whatever |
| understanding usually leads to the blame game: the | | | | comes into their mind at the time without regard to its |
| person with ADHD is the "problem", not the ADHD. "If | | | | impact on others around them. They often lack |
| daddy was just better at keeping his word things | | | | patience with their children and shout at them for even |
| would be better" is a spoken or unspoken thought of | | | | minor misbehaviours. |
| the children. "My spouse is so disorganised, she just | | | | Adults with ADHD are highly disorganised. They lose |
| doesn't care" is the undercurrent of martial difficulties. | | | | things, forget where they were put, lay something |
| ADHD in adults almost always causes relationship | | | | down one minute and forget where it is the next. In the |
| problems. Without adequate understanding of the | | | | family home there is often a striking lack of order. |
| source of the problem and without recognition that help | | | | Things are scattered around the house, never put in |
| is available marriage often breakup, families become | | | | their proper place, dishes don't get done, the children's |
| distressed and children suffer the consequences. | | | | books get misplaced and a general atmosphere of |
| What is the First Step in Solving the Problem? | | | | chaos is present in the home. |
| The first thing everyone needs to do is be honest | | | | What Can Be Done? |
| about the source of the problem. The source of the | | | | Help is only a phone call away. If an adult recognises |
| problem is ADHD, not the person with ADHD. ADHD is | | | | the symptoms mentioned above they should contact |
| a neurobiological condition effecting about five to | | | | their family physician and talk about them. There can |
| seven percent of the population. It is a condition that | | | | be many causes of these characteristics so a |
| interferes with attention, concentration, planning and | | | | professional person, often a psychologist of |
| organisational skills. It is sometimes accompanied by | | | | psychiatrist, needs to sort things out and make a |
| impulse control problems, forgetfulness and low | | | | differential diagnosis. If the cause is ADHD a variety of |
| frustration tolerance. Adults with ADHD have difficulty | | | | treatments are available ranging form cognitive |
| in work, with friends and colleagues, with extended | | | | behaviour therapy to medication. Sometimes |
| family and with immediate family. | | | | biofeedback or neurofeedback treatments may be |
| What Sort of Problems Do Adults with ADHD Have? | | | | helpful. Whatever assistance is chosen it is important |
| Adults with ADHD are typically more restless and | | | | to be sure your professional is a person experienced |
| fidgety than other adults. They cannot sit still for long, | | | | with ADHD in adults and grounded in mental health |
| can't stay at home, tend to get in the car and drive for | | | | treatment issues. |