Mental health HCPs’ best reads on emotional dysregulation, mood disorders, Tourette’s syndrome, migraines, and serving LGBTIA+ youth from ADDitude’s archives.
Inattentive ADHD: ADD Signs, Treatments, Fallacies additudemag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from additudemag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Emotional dysregulation and moodiness are not included in the diagnostic criteria for ADHD – a detrimental omission, according to many researchers and clinicians. The reality is that children and adults with ADHD commonly experience irritability, low frustration tolerance, and mood lability – emotional symptoms that have long factored into resulting treatment and management plans.
However, emotional dysregulation is not exclusive to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD). Chronic moodiness is also a central component of mood disorders like bipolar disorder, which may complicate the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment process, particularly for adult patients. Differentiating moodiness as it appears in ADHD, bipolar disorder, and similar disorders is critically important and not always straightforward.
Bipolar Disorder vs ADHD: Difference in Symptoms, Treatment additudemag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from additudemag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.