Understanding the difference and understanding the different types of ADD symptoms can help ensure that you or your child gets the right treatment.
Different Symptoms
There are three different categories for ADHD Symptoms, they are:
* Lack of concentration
* Restless
ADD, on the other hand, only causes the inattention symptoms.
Treating a patient for ADHD when they have ADD is overmedicating and could lead to further issues. In many cases, the stories about Ritalin and other ADHD treatment medications that cause a child to be zombie-like are probably linked directly to medicating children with only ADD with the wrong medication or wrong doses, thinking that they have ADHD.
Inattention Symptoms
With ADD the only type of symptoms that will be exhibited are inattention symptoms. These include:
* No attention to details
* Insensitive mistakes
* Easily sidetracked
* Cannot take a note
* Trouble following information
* Cannot finish the tasks
* Can't put anything in order
* Forgetful
Diagnosing ADD can help a child get a grasp on things and start to be able to focus. A child that is treated for ADD will begin to do better in school and have better behavior overall.
In most situations, parents always believe that their children could not be ADD since they can sit for many hours doing something they like without being distracted.
The truth is that a child with ADD can concentrate when they like what they are doing because it does not require them to put effort into paying attention and being focused like an activity they do not like does.
ADD will worsen, as the child gets older or at least continue to cause problems with school and other activities. By this time, though, it has progressed into something that is probably causing all around issues in the child's life.
It is actually much better to recognized ADD in younger children so that the children can get used to taking medicine as well as learn how to face ADD symptoms.
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