ADHD symptoms include difficulty staying focused, excessive fidgeting, acting without thinking and difficulty with self-control.
About one in nine children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with ADHD at some point in their childhood, and those numbers rose exponentially between 2016 and 2022, a new study found. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 7.1 million, or 11.4% of children in America, have ever been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, with 6.5 million, or 10.5%, of children currently living with ADHD.
Melissa Danielson, a statistician with the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and the study's lead author, said those numbers aren’t surprising because the data was collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. RELATED: Teens turning to TikTok to self-diagnose mental health issues"A lot of those diagnoses...
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