This week is Invisible Illness Week, to raise awareness for illnesses that are not visible such as chronic pain, autoimmune system diseases, cancer, mental illnesses, ADHD, and many more. So many people suffer from pain and as a result their quality of life is compromised. If you or someone you know has an invisible illness, please share your story by commenting to this post so that we help create greater awareness of these invisible illnesses.
A few weeks ago, I posted about the back pain I was experiencing. Fortunately, my pain is gone and I’m doing fine. Thanks for your feedback and support.
I read a really informative article on ADHD on the differences between boys and girls with ADHD.
According to the article, (ADHD), a behavioral disorder characterized by three major symptoms:
- Inattention: the child has difficulty sustaining attention, listening, and attending to details. He or she is easily distracted, often loses things, and presents as forgetful and disorganized.
- Impulsivity: the child may have poor frustration tolerance and may have trouble waiting, taking turns, or sharing.
- Hyperactivity: the child seems to be constantly in motion, squirming, fidgeting, running, and climbing more than other children. He or she talks excessively and at inappropriate times.
Clinicians may diagnose a child with ADHD, combined type, or with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, predominantly either inattentive type or hyperactive-impulsive type.
In another interesting study discusses how boys are a greater risk of being diagnosed with ADHD, and that children born to parents who have low education levels, in particular, are at an increased risk for developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) compared to girls and children born to parents with high levels of education, according to a study of 5,701 children in Olmsted County, Minn.
In yet another article, “researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it.
Boys with either or both of these disorders exhibited a different pattern of brain activity than normally developing boys when they played a simple game that sometimes gave them a monetary reward for correct answers, according to a new study by a University of Washington research team.”
Lastly, in another article, University of Illinois researchers found that “ADHD symptoms lessen if children spend more time outdoors. The more rustic and wilderness-like the setting, the stronger the effect.”
