Can you develop ADD

Answer 1

NO

ADD is a condition that one is born with and one will have for the rest of his or her life. But sometimes the ADD is not recognized until later in life. Also, as someone with ADD grows up and matures, he has to develop coping methods for dealing with the disorder and functioning normally in a non-ADD society. This can cause the illusion that ADD is a condition that can develop and that can be 'grown out of.'

Ask yourself if this is a recent development; or is this something you've had your whole life, but maybe not noticed it as a problem or condition until now?

Answer 2

ADD was a previous name used by the previous version of the DSM ie DSM III, with time ADD was renamed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in DSM-IV (ADHD) to be more descriptive of the illness, now it has classifiers, and can have variants of ADHD. And to answer your question, Yes you can have ADD and ADHD depending on which name you prefer, but they are essentially the same ( but for the psychiatric nuances), and the name ADD does not exist anymore and has been relaced by ADHD.

Answer 3

No ADD and ADHD are different in most ways. ADD stands for Attention Ddeficit Disorder and ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. People with ADD are calmer or quieter then people with ADHD. The brainwaves are different too. ADD peoples brainwaves are slow and go from high to low points but ADHD peoples brainwaves are fast and low points making them hyperactive.

Answer 4

if you are worried about ADD or ADHD get yourself tested by a specialist. It is very common to be misdiagnosis, cus well in this day in age we live in a very low attention with everything world. you could just be having a spacey day though every 1 in 25 people have ADD or ADHD and if your work is suffering from i really recommend looking into it. it helped me a lot when it was figured out

Answer 5

Yes, it is a generic disorder so if you mother had it, there is a chance you have it as well