China News Service, Hefei, August 5th (Liu Liyang and Zhang Qiang) "Other children finish their homework at 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, but my child can't finish it at 10 o'clock in the evening!" It's been two months." "I listened carefully in class, but I always like to play with things in my hands. The teacher always criticizes me, and I don't want to study hard"...
Every Wednesday afternoon, there is an endless stream of patients who come to the "Learning Difficulty" outpatient clinic of the Department of Psychology and Sleep Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University.
According to Geng Feng, Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Psychology and Sleep Medicine at the hospital, since June, the number of "learning difficulties" outpatient clinics has been saturated, and many patients have come from Chizhou, Fuyang and other places in the province on a special trip.
Most of the primary school students who were brought into Dr. Geng Feng's consultation room by their parents were primary school students aged 9 to 12. They generally suffered from unsatisfactory academic performance, poor study habits, procrastination in homework, and easy distraction during study. Uncontrollable, etc.
Geng Feng introduced that if such a phenomenon persists for a long time before the age of 12, and occurs in schools, families and other occasions, it is necessary to consider whether there is "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder". If this disease is diagnosed after evaluation by a doctor, requires the right intervention and treatment.
"Learning difficulty is a generalization of a phenomenon. A considerable number of children's learning difficulties are caused by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which can be clinically manifested as attention deficit, hyperactivity and impulsivity. One manifestation, some children have several symptoms at the same time." Geng Feng pointed out that attention deficit refers to children's attention span is shorter than that of their peers, and they are unable to concentrate and engage in learning.
Hyperactivity is manifested as being unable to follow order, unable to engage in quiet activities, and playing loudly regardless of the occasion.
Impulsivity is an inappropriate change in emotion, such as quarreling with others, throwing things, irritability, and sadness when encountering some small things.
"Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is influenced by congenital genetic factors and acquired environmental influences." Geng Feng said that for the correction of this problem, drug treatment and family behavior training are currently used. "Parents are required to cooperate. Some parents My own temper is also not good, it is easy to cause the child's resistance, aggravating the child's emotional impulse and delay in doing things." In addition, professional psychological counseling or psychotherapy can also be combined with medical treatment.
Some adult patients are also troubled by problems such as inattentiveness, inability to control the details of things, straying, and forgetting important matters, and come to the "learning difficulties" clinic for help.
"Adult ADHD manifests before the age of 12, but it does not cause serious effects at that time. If there is no systemic treatment, most people will have some residual symptoms. When adult life environment changes, such as in In more stressful situations, these symptoms may recur."
Geng Feng introduced that patients who were about to graduate from university came to see a doctor. The reason was that they always skipped classes and played games during the university period. They were not able to concentrate while studying and could not continue to focus, resulting in frequent failures and failure to graduate on time.
"Although some children have attention deficit problems in childhood, they have not seen a doctor or received formal intervention and treatment because they are strictly constrained by their families and schools before going to college, and their grades are relatively satisfactory. After entering college, due to lack of Self-discipline, coupled with the problem of attention deficit, inability to learn independently, will seriously lead to withdrawal from school."
In this regard, Geng Feng suggested that whether it is an adult or a child, as long as symptoms such as hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and inability to concentrate persist for more than half a year, they will be actually affected in terms of academic performance, emotional health, and interpersonal communication. Doctor's help.
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