Welcome to the September 5, 2014 Post Game Show for Mojo Friday!
TexDem's diary made me do a little research today, as my (to be 20 years old next week) son has both a learning disability (related to short term memory retention) and ADHD. How will that impact his life as an adult, I wondered? How about his relationships with potential partners? Does it have anything to do with the addiction issues he struggles with?
I'm far from an expert on these things, but what jumped out at me most when doing some searching and reading is just how variable the impact of ADHD on adults can be. I'll share here a few links and graphics today, but you may wish to read the articles themselves to learn more about this topic if your child, your partner or even yourself have been diagnosed with ADHD.
To start with, our diary graphic, This is your brain on ADHD is from Understanding Adult ADHD published on yourmedguide.com in January of this year. They had this to say:
People with adult ADHD have a hard time managing their mess, being punctual and completing anything they start doing. ... You’ll see them constantly butting in on others or say things without thinking. If they’re driving, they are distracted. They can’t focus. If they’re reading, they can’t keep at it. Whatever they do, they can’t stay with it till they’re done. Naturally this behavior interferes with their performance and damages their relationships. ...
Adult ADHD can be categorized into:
inattentiveness
hyperactivity or a tendency to be impulsive
It is possible to belong to one or both categories. A diagnosis of ADHD must bring up at least five symptoms in each cateogory before the person turns 12 years old. It has to be chronic.
I had always thought that the inattentiveness was a direct consequence of hyperactivity, but it appears they're considered different characteristics, and both may not be present in the same adult.
What does this mean for behaviors in affected adults? You can see more of this in this table, from ADHDPartner,com, What Does Adult ADHD “Look Like”?
How does this impact their lives? Pretty much as you're expect, if you thought through how these behaviors impact life and work. From medscape.org, we have these results:
And, to answer my last question, another medscape.org article reports:
Substance abuse comorbidity.
Substance abuse disorder is another comorbidity that can persist independently of continued ADHD symptoms. Studies vary considerably in their findings but tend toward a 10% to 20% rate of substance abuse disorders among ADHD adults. Compared with controls, adults with ADHD have a 3- to 4-fold higher rate of marijuana and cocaine use, a 3-fold higher rate of alcohol abuse, and utilize tobacco 40% more.
In short, chances are you know an adult with ADHD. Chances are they've not been diagnosed with it, may not be treating it (although they may be treating some of the behaviors that come with ADHD, and it can impact their relationship with you.
For those of you with ADHD, my heart goes out to you. I wish you, your partners, families and friends joy and love in what can be difficult times. And, for TexDem, I do wish he could write Mojo Friday diaries a bit earlier!
And now for the fun!
Today's Mojo Friday diary is Mojo Friday - Adult ADHD - Edition
The Mojo Friday Postgame is a statistical analysis of the Mojo Friday diary that is posted every Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. ET. For further info please check out Jez's 'Official' "Mojo Friday Snecktionary" MKinTN posted a diary to help everyone achieve greater success called How to Succeed at Mojo Friday Without Really Trying.
Congratulations to:
Participation-est: bjedward, Senor Unoball, bsegel, NoMoJoe
Chattiest: TexDem
Generous-est: NoMoJoe
Snecksiest (1): TexDem, Captain C
Thanks to our most excellent host, TexDem!
Stats will be updated Sunday afternoon. Final stats will be published a week later.
First round stats, as of 4:05PM Eastern, are:
44 participants
220 comments
5.0 average comments per participant
4209 total mojo exchanged
45.8% average participation rate
Snecker-tracker:
100 : TexDem
200 : Captain C
username |
comments |
mojogiven |
comments + mojogiven |
partic% |
mojorecd |
recd diary? |
bjedward |
3 |
217 |
220 |
100.00% |
62 |
Yes |
Senor Unoball |
19 |
201 |
220 |
100.00% |
377 |
Yes |
bsegel |
1 |
219 |
220 |
100.00% |
26 |
Yes |
NoMoJoe |
1 |
219 |
220 |
100.00% |
3 |
Yes |
VClib |
18 |
198 |
216 |
98.18% |
293 |
Yes |
Eddie L |
1 |
209 |
210 |
95.45% |
19 |
Yes |
4Freedom |
26 |
184 |
210 |
95.45% |
483 |
Yes |
polecat |
9 |
197 |
206 |
93.64% |
110 |
Yes |
TexDem |
75 |
128 |
203 |
92.27% |
1549 |
Author |
alypsee1 |
0 |
202 |
202 |
91.82% |
0 |
Yes |
KellyB |
1 |
196 |
197 |
89.55% |
15 |
Yes |
anotherdemocrat |
4 |
187 |
191 |
86.82% |
82 |
Yes |
Captain C |
18 |
169 |
187 |
85.00% |
201 |
Yes |
AllanTBG |
1 |
183 |
184 |
83.64% |
24 |
Yes |
mjbleo |
0 |
182 |
182 |
82.73% |
0 |
Yes |
Spirit of Life |
0 |
171 |
171 |
77.73% |
0 |
Yes |
progdog |
2 |
168 |
170 |
77.27% |
38 |
Yes |
Yasuragi |
0 |
158 |
158 |
71.82% |
0 |
Yes |
westyny |
1 |
123 |
124 |
56.36% |
21 |
Yes |
kenwards |
5 |
111 |
116 |
52.73% |
107 |
Yes |
ER Doc |
2 |
100 |
102 |
46.36% |
52 |
Yes |
roycej |
1 |
97 |
98 |
44.55% |
21 |
Yes |
high uintas |
2 |
91 |
93 |
42.27% |
35 |
Yes |
Texnance |
6 |
69 |
75 |
34.09% |
141 |
Yes |
Shadowmage36 |
1 |
61 |
62 |
28.18% |
24 |
No |
mungley |
4 |
56 |
60 |
27.27% |
95 |
Yes |
AllTheWayWithLBJ85 |
8 |
28 |
36 |
16.36% |
196 |
No |
ladybug53 |
0 |
36 |
36 |
16.36% |
0 |
Yes |
Betty Pinson |
1 |
11 |
12 |
5.45% |
21 |
Yes |
Common Sense Mainer |
0 |
10 |
10 |
4.55% |
0 |
Yes |
tuesdayschilde |
0 |
8 |
8 |
3.64% |
0 |
Yes |
glb3 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
3.64% |
82 |
Yes |
Pilotshark |
1 |
6 |
7 |
3.18% |
23 |
No |
MT Spaces |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1.36% |
20 |
Yes |
moviemeister76 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0.91% |
0 |
Yes |
MightyMoose |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0.91% |
49 |
Yes |
MKinTN |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
Yes |
smileycreek |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
Yes |
qofdisks |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
Yes |
pvasileff |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
No |
chimene |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
Yes |
VeloVixen |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0.45% |
16 |
No |
vgranucci |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0.45% |
24 |
Yes |
politik |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.45% |
0 |
Yes |