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The pandemic helped me realize I have ADHD — at 34
The traits I consider to be my biggest flaws were spiralling in self-isolation to a point that I felt they were no longer manageable. As I was going through the motions thinking something must be “wrong” with me, a friend posted an article on adult ADHD and every word jumped out at me.
Source: CBC | Health - September 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news
The Coronavirus Seems to Spare Most Kids From Illness, but Its Effect on Their Mental Health Is Deepening
Pandemics can be indiscriminate, with viruses making no distinctions among the victims they attack and those they spare. If you’re human, you’ll do. COVID-19 has been different, particularly when it comes to age. The disease has shown a special animus for older people, with those 65-plus considered at especially high risk for hospitalization and death, and those 18 and below catching a semblance of an epidemiological break. Though a small share of adolescents have suffered severe cases, most who contract the disease in that age cohort are likelier to experience milder symptoms or none at all.
But if COVID-19 is...
Source: TIME: Health - July 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news
How do children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) experience lockdown during the COVID-19 outbreak? - Bobo E, Lin L, Acquaviva E, Caci H, Franc N, Gamon L, Picot MC, Pupier F, Speranza M, Falissard B, Purper-Ouakil D.
OBJECTIVES: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the French government has decided a general lockdown. This unprecedented situation has raised concerns about children's and adolescent's mental health. Children and adolescents diagnosed with attention deficit hype...
Source: SafetyLit - June 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Pandemic Causing Havoc for Kids With ADHD
Researchers surveyed 241 parents in China, found that the majority said their child's ADHD symptoms had worsened during lockdown and the switch to online schooling.
Source: WebMD Health - June 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
10 Novel Steps You Can Take Right Now to Reduce Anxiety and Panic Attacks in the Age of the Coronavirus
Recently, anxiety overtook depression, ADHD, and all other conditions to be the Number One mental health challenge.
We’re currently under siege by an invisible enemy, and most of our anxiety levels are higher than before. For some time, however, anxiety has been on the rise as we face all the everyday choices we have to make, both small and potentially life changing. We live in a highly complex world that complicates our existence and creates newer tensions.
The Process of Anxiety
Most people think of anxiety as an emotional state, and it is. But anxiety is also a process that starts with several uncomfortable emotio...
Source: Psych Central - May 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jeffrey Chernin, Ph.D., MFT Tags: Anxiety Coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: news
Coronavirus Shutdowns Leave Disabled Students Behind, Parents Say
BOSTON (AP) — At school, Rose Hayes, 8, works with a team of teachers and therapists trained to help with her genetic condition. They set goals for her reading, give her physical therapy to improve her balance and make sure she stays on track. But for the last two weeks, her only connection to school has been through a computer screen.
Rose, home amid the coronavirus pandemic that has shuttered schools across the country, now watches lessons her teacher posts to YouTube. Her therapists check in via video chat. In between, she works through daily assignments.
Her parents say it’s the best they can expect, but they still...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - March 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Education Health Syndicated CBSN Boston Coronavirus Source Type: news
Dutch marijuana trade, German meth, and more! Tox on the Web
The politics and economics of marijuana in the Netherlands: The above piece from PBS NewsHour makes the point that the illogical patchwork system controlling the market for recreational cannabis in the Netherlands is nothing like the comprehensive regulation being instigated in Colorado and Washington state. HT @erowid)
Must-read: Meth in Germany: A recent issue of Der Spiegel has an extensive report on the growing problem of methamphetamine abuse in Germany. Apparently, much of the meth is manufactured in Czechoslovakia and slipped across the border. Many of the people who become hooked on the drug are students and you...
Source: The Poison Review - March 26, 2014 Category: Toxicology Authors: Leon Tags: Medical cannabis chemical warfare agents Georgetown germany liquid nicotine marijuana methamphetamine netherlands Redstone arsenal ricin Source Type: news
