The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder called “ADHD” usually sets in at an early age, and if not treated properly it may continue into adulthood.
ADHD brings in many behavioral and relationship difficulties for the adult person, and it often leads to ruining their work and personal lives.
The most dominant symptoms of ADHD in adults is the restlessness and this leads to lack of focus on things around them and it mostly becomes the reason for loss of employments and souring relationships.
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| How ADHD adult symptoms affect the person |
An adult person with ADHD may has one or all of the following signs and symptoms, which cause devastating effects on the person’s social as well as work environments.
The symptoms are:
1. Get distracted easily and unable to sustain their focus on the most important things that are going in front of them, and pay more attention to very trivial things that are usually ignored by others of the same age.
2. Inability to maintain meaningful conversation with others, even for a short duration.
3. Inability to listen to others and respond to them in coherent language due to constant shifting of their attention.
4. Excessive forgetfulness leading to very bad consequences in their daily life, making them total nervous wrecks due to their inability to meet even the smallest demands of their daily life.
5. Being totally disorganized, leading to total chaos in their daily life.
6. Leaving things they are doing in midway and shifting their attention frequently to other things, due to their inability to focus on one thing at a time, hence become less productive than others in their age group.
7. Difficulty in paying attention to details and they will be unable to take notice of little things, making them look irresponsible in their activities.
8. Make careless and silly mistakes that are wholly inappropriate for their age.
9. Make lot of mistakes at their work place and at home, and make things worse for those around them showing them unreliable and unpredictable in their activities.
10. Become messy and create situations that make them look utterly careless.
11. Total failure in conducting even small things in their life due to inability to focus on even small things that are easily and routinely accomplished by persons of their age.
12. Inability to get involved in activities that are good for their family or necessary for their work life, making them considered as useless often troublesome both at home and at their work place.
13. Unreasonable and excessive procrastination, leading to constant failure in achieving things that are necessary even for their day to day life.
14. Exhibiting horrible work habits making them undesirable in their place of work.
15. Inability to remember and act as per the norms of their surroundings and this makes them unwanted in social gatherings and family functions.
ADHD may bring disastrous effects to the life of a person and if he is not treated before he reaches the stage of a responsible adult then his entire life may be totally ruined due to the effects of this mental problem.
Fortunately, we have many ways to deal with ADHD, bring back the lost mental health and make the person work and behave as a normal human being.
