The following questions are related to ‘ADHD’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: My beautiful 3-year-old grand daughter is such a handful! Her mother and dad are exhausted, and I can’t watch her for more than 2 hours without feeling somewhat trapped! My daughter says she will eat her own stools! I’ve not witnessed that but what she has done is strip in public, and holler “I’m [...]
Q; I often finding myself doing childish irresponsible things. Should I be worried? For example, last night I tried to fix the sink in my parents’ house using toilet paper to absorb water that did not go down the drain and taping pencils together and sticking them down the drain, to poke around and pouring [...]
Q: To the outside world, my son is friendly, outgoing, polite, kind, and considerate. He can be this way at home, too, unless something doesn’t go his way or he feels he is being treated unfairly. If this happens, he has angry and frightening verbal outbursts that seem out of his control. When he recovers, [...]
Q: My son is 14 and was diagnosed with ADHD in Kindergarten. He could never sit still and has always been hyperactive and inattentive. I have always felt that something else is going on with him and I have been unsuccessful for all these years at finding out what. He has sensory issues, e.g., he [...]
Q: I have been dating my boyfriend for almost three months now and I’ve begun to become really worried about him because he comes and goes through these almost apathetic or depressed states. Some days he will be extremely happy, pleasant to be around, funny, affectionate, focused on school and life; but then other times [...]
Q: I have a question. I was diagnosed with ADD as a child and was put on Ritalin until I was about 14. I am now 30 and was wondering is it possible that I still suffer from ADD? I still feel anxious, irritable, have some panic attacks with palps, feel keyed up, can’t focus, [...]
Q: I am very worried about my son who is approaching his 5th birthday. He is very loud, aggressive, argumentative, always runs off in shops, and hurts his 1-year-old sister. He has been at infant school since Sept 07 and has already punched a boy resulting in a black eye, bit another child and kicked [...]
