Childhood Trauma And ADHD

The overlapping symptoms of childhood trauma and ADHD can make it hard to make a correct diagnosis, which that could create issues when assessing or even treating either condition. Both childhood trauma and ADHD often occur with other symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, or learning disabilities. For example, 60 % of children and teenagers with ADHD have been diagnosed with at least one additional disorder. Also, many biological and psychological issues can also add symptoms that are similar to those shown by children with childhood trauma and ADHD. For some children who have been through any type of childhood trauma they could display a variety of developmental issues and problems including stress and anger control issues, behavioral,
anxiety and depression, and as they grow older they find they suffer from some sort of learning disability. For some children the trauma they have faced during their childhood has such a dramatic effect on their developmental stage that they are affected in multiple areas of their life. Due to the extreme nature of their symptoms and mental presentation this often leads to many diagnoses and has the chance of being misdiagnosed, especially when the ramification of the trauma they have gone through goes unnoticed. Due to this issue the children could be treated with multiple medications and made to go through therapies that are ultimately in the longrun ineffective.