ADHD is understood to represent Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder while ADD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder. In both cases, individuals have trouble staying focused on matters that are not of strong interest to them. The only difference between the two is that individuals with ADHD are more hyperactive than those who have ADD. Have you ever wondered how individuals with ADD/ADHD function in everyday life? The answer is that many of these individuals can either choose to take the proper medications or go through varies of therapies. Individuals with ADD/ADHD usually go through life struggling with school, relationships, and the workforce, but with the proper treatment plans then they can improve their lifestyles.
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The articles “What is ADHD” and “ADD/ADHD Symptoms” talks mainly about the main forms of medication used to help treat ADD/ADHD, which include: Behavior therapy, including parent training, Medications school accommodations and interventions. Behavior Therapy is the treatment of neurotic symptoms by training the patient 's reactions to stimuli. Basically Children with ADHD often show behaviors that can be very disruptive to others. Behavior therapy is a treatment option that can help reduce these behaviors found in these individuals, but even though children are the main focus of the behavioral therapies parents also play a big role as …show more content…
The main reason why they are cautionary is because if a person is taking the medication used to treat ADD/ADHD without the proper doses they could become highly addicted to the medication. People become addicted to these medications because they are commonly known to all as stimulus, a way of making a person feel good and the most commonly abused drug is Adderall says the piece on the Center of Disease Control and Preventions website about ADD/ADHD. The best thing about the stimulants is that they are short acting which means that they don’t stay in the body for long periods of time and will stop working as soon as the child/ adult stops taking