What are the main characteristics of ADHD in children?

ADHD is a behavioral and physiological disease that mainly occurs in children. It is particularly painful for patients. Child patients often have no control over their actions. Therefore, it is a disease. Most children with ADHD show many symptoms. After children develop ADHD, parents must pay attention to it. What are the main characteristics of ADHD?

1. Lack of concentration

Children have difficulty concentrating and persisting, lack subjective control, cannot pay attention to the teacher's lectures, and are easily distracted by external stimuli. Parents report that their children can keep their eyes fixed and highly focused when playing video games or watching interesting TV shows, but cannot pay attention in classes that require willpower control. They lack strong willpower and perseverance in learning, are unable to study well, and may even become bored with school.

2. Too much activity

It manifests as restlessness, panic, incoherent and disorganized. He kept twisting his seat in class, making small movements, and looking around. After class, I ran around aimlessly like a wild horse. Some children with ADHD seem to be quiet and less active, but their attention is easily distracted. Their minds wander in class and they don't understand what the class is about.

3. Impulsiveness

Easily irritable, prone to temper tantrums, impulsive and willful, doing things without consideration and without regard for the consequences. They often make trouble as they please, destroying things, stealing, fighting, and causing trouble.

4 Psychological changes

They are emotionally unstable. Some are excited and restless, talkative, nosy, rash and have difficulty falling asleep. Some are slow to react, lazy, procrastinate on their homework, have mood swings, are emotionally fragile, cry and laugh easily, cannot bear setbacks, are not sociable or like to associate with younger children; they have stubborn personalities, are not afraid of beatings or scoldings, do not listen to advice, and do their own thing. Some develop inferiority complex and rebelliousness, and even run away, commit crimes or commit suicide.

5. Learning difficulties

Children with ADHD are not intellectually deficient, but about 60% of them have learning difficulties. Children with ADHD are not intellectually deficient, but about 60% of them have learning difficulties. Performance

① Visual movement disorder: when copying a picture, the pictures are arranged in disorder, not arranged according to the original form, and the words are written in a sloppy manner;

②Hearing impairment, difficulty distinguishing sounds: unable to put sounds into words or sentences;

③ Cognitive difficulties: unable to distinguish left from right, color, location, and orientation;

④ Difficulty in reading aloud: It is easy to make mistakes, such as reading 78 as 87; reading Wuhan as Hanwu;

⑤ Feeling dizzy during exams: forgetting all the questions that you could normally answer, your grades drop, and you have obvious learning difficulties.

Through the above introduction, we now know the characteristics of children's ADHD. After a child suffers from such a disease, parents must pay special attention to it and actively go to the hospital for examination and treatment with their children. In addition, during the treatment, attention should also be paid to regulating the child's life and diet, and multi-faceted treatment.