Wondering if you have adult ADHD? Psychiatrists and doctors spotlight the most common symptoms associated with the disorder.
Like a lot of people who use TikTok, Olivia Howell has noticed that her feed often offers up posts about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder . Still, she never paid that much attention to them, until her sister DM’d her a video—which featured a woman’s chaotic inner monologue as she walked through her house—that struck a nerve. “I didn’t know other people lived like that in their head,” Howell tells SELF.
When he diagnoses adults, the grown-up equivalent—work—tends to be where problems surface: In fact, people with ADHD are 60% more likely to be fired from a job and 30% more likely to have chronic employment problems than their peers without it, some research suggests. “You’ll see a lot of people who do not finish projects on time or run late for meetings,” Dr. Khurana explains. “In meetings, they might seem very scattered, or they’re shuffling through papers, not organized, or missing deadlines.
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