Today, preschoolers and schoolchildren are often diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). At the same time, some experts are sure that there are genetic and physiological causes of ADHD, while others consider this syndrome a myth. “Hyperactivity is not a disease,” writes psychiatrist Sidney Walker. “This is a criminal fabrication by doctors who have no idea what is really happening with children.” Strong statement, right? At the same time, American doctors mostly prescribe medications for children diagnosed with ADHD. Our specialists prefer non-drug methods of working with hyperactive babies, believing that drugs can suppress a child’s excitability, but not… Read More

Author’s note: While working as a child psychologist at the Astrum Multidisciplinary Diagnostic and Treatment Center , I wrote this short article for the parents of those children who have been diagnosed with ADHD. The article was written for psychoeducational purposes and covered for parents, at times, such a confusing topic as “children’s hyperactivity”. A tireless, inattentive, impatient little child, often called “hyperactive”, he is like a “perpetual motion machine” or “Yule”, over and over again bringing parents to tears and frenzy, teachers and educators to irritation, anger and a sense of his own helplessness … Is he Is hyperactivity… Read More

“Flowers are the children of the plant kingdom, children are the flowers of the human kingdom.” Every parent wants the best for their child. But what if something went wrong. For example, a child is inattentive, restless, often distracted, problems with behavior, with motor skills, with memory, with speech, quickly gets tired or rushes around like a wind-up, etc. You can learn languages as much as you want, go to sports clubs, hire a bunch of tutors, but you won’t achieve the desired effect. Or the second option, which can sometimes even be heard from a doctor, the notorious “it… Read More

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a common disease, which is studied by both doctors and psychologists and educators. Manifestations in children are quite bright, these are extreme mobility, inattention, impulsivity and others that cause parents a lot of trouble. According to epidemiological studies, 4-12% of school-age children suffer from hyperactivity, according to other data, it ranges from 2.0 to 18.0%. The indicator has a wide range of values, since the assessment involves the subjectivity of diagnostic criteria, the opinion of parents, doctors and even teachers is taken into account, and the child’s behavior may change depending on the situation. It… Read More

Working for a long time with preschool children, I came to the disappointing conclusion that few parents know how ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) manifests itself in children and what it is in general. At the mere mention of ADHD, parents start to panic. Although there is nothing to panic about. This is not a terrible mental illness! Although, yes, the diagnosis is made by a psychiatrist or a neurologist. Then what is it? Today I will briefly tell you about it. To begin with, let’s make it clear for ourselves that doctors characterize ADHD as one of the manifestations… Read More

More about hyperactivity and ADHD. I will try to write in the most simple language, if it is not clear, write in the comments, I will try to clarify. There is an opinion that hyperactivity is high mobility, but not all mobile children are hyperactive, and there are also not very mobile and at the same time with hyperactivity. Hyperactivity is a feature of the nervous system, and this is not a disease; it cannot be cured, only compensated. What is its feature? Normally, the processes of excitation and inhibition (activity and rest) change harmoniously and automatically without separate efforts,… Read More

I recently met a wonderful boy. He stood next to his mother, but all of him, as it were, was everywhere. Hands, legs, head – lived their own separate lives. He just couldn’t stand still, dancing all the time, trying to run somewhere while having time to ask questions, answer and gesticulate. Parents sometimes say that there are “too many” such children. Looking at him, I involuntarily had an association with the hero of A. Tolstoy “The Golden Key or the Adventures of Pinocchio”. It is this restless wooden boy who constantly gets into the most incredible stories, is curious… Read More

You can read about how attention deficit disorder in children develops and proceeds in the previously published article “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD) in Children”. This article will focus on the symptoms, course, and methods of treating the course of ADHD in adults. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not always detected in childhood. To be more precise, most likely, the signs of ADHD in childhood were ignored by adults – accordingly, there was no recourse to a specialist for help, and the diagnosis was not made. But there are cases when in early childhood the signs did not really… Read More

The birth of a child is happiness, and if a healthy child is also born, then happiness is doubled. Overwhelmed with feelings, dreams and expectations, mom takes a breath in the maternity hospital before a life-long marathon. The first year of life flies by on trips to the clinic: weighing, measuring height, visiting specialists and getting vaccinated on time. All attention is on physiological development: healthy sleep, good appetite, the appearance and extinction of reflexes and the stability of the immune system. In other words , a healthy mind in a healthy body. And who would have thought that already… Read More

“In every little child there are two hundred grams of explosives, or even half a kilo”? They often say about such a child that he has a small motor built in somewhere, they call him a nimble and fidget. It is difficult for such a child to sit still, he wants to run, grab, jump, knock, beat. And the mother of such a baby, after a whole day of empty running around and trying to calm an excessively mobile child, feels like the heroine of a cartoon about little monkeys. And then one of the acquaintances or teachers in kindergarten… Read More