Can't Sit Still (HD)
A person With HD Manages attention better than a person without HD.
What is False?
Taking medication for reasons other than prescribed, or taking someone else's medication, is known as this.
What is misusing or abusing medication?
This disorder is characterized by a persistent pattern of "talking back" and frequent outbursts of anger toward parents, teachers, and other authority figures.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
This common warning sign involves a person suddenly withdrawing from friends, family, or activities they used to love.
What is social withdrawal
While formerly known as ADHD, this is the current, more comprehensive medical term for the neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, impulsivity, and sometimes hyperactivity.
What is ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)?
A person with HD Loses and can’t keep track of their stuff.
What is True?
This drug is a time-release form of oxycodone that became a major focal point of abuse.
What is Oxycontin?
This is a "short fuse" disorder where a person has a huge explosion over a tiny problem.
What is intermittent explosive disorder or (IED)
A behavioral state defined as a failure to pay sufficient attention, caution, or forethought to a task or situation, frequently resulting in unintentional, unfavorable, or harmful outcomes, sometimes done purposefully.
What is carelessness (or trying to harm yourself)?
ADD is often linked to an imbalance or deficiency in this specific neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure, motivation, and focus in the brain.
What is Dopamine?
HD is caused by eating too much of this (MYTH)
What is sugar?
This can happen when misused substances are consumed and when distress happens because of the drug stopping.
What is withdrawal due to drug use?
This term describes an uncontrollable urge to steal things you don't even need.
What is kleptomania
While not all suicidal individuals feel sad, this specific emotion—the feeling that things will never get better—is a major warning sign.
What is hopelessness?
This term describes the intense, hyper-focused state of attention that people with ADD can experience, often leading to them losing track of time or their surroundings.
What is hyperfocus?
Type of therapy helps kids with HD manage their behavior.
What is Behavior Therapy?
This is the dangerous term for when someone takes a higher dose of a pill than they were told to, or takes a pill that was originally meant for a friend or family member.
What is Prescription Misuse (or Abuse)?
Doctors often find that kids with behavior disorders also have this common focus-related disorder.
What is ADHD
A sudden or unexpected shift from being very depressed, to becoming very happy or calm can indicate someone has decided this.
What is making a decision to attempt suicide (or finalizing a plan)?
These types of medications, including Adderall and Ritalin, are the most common pharmacological treatment for managing ADD symptoms.
What are Stimulants?
This HD is what makes people move around a lot.
What is hyperactive?
These are the two most commonly abused types of prescription pills; one is used to help people focus, and the other is a powerful medicine used to stop "extreme pain."
What are Stimulants and Opioids?
This is the specific term used when a person feels a strong, uncontrollable urge to start fires just to feel a sense of relief.
What is pyromania
This behavioral change involves giving away prized possessions, making a will, or organizing personal affairs.
What is "getting affairs in order" (or "final arrangements")?
Often impaired in those with ADD, this set of mental skills includes working memory and self-regulation and is primarily managed by this specific region of the frontal lobe.
What are Executive Functions (and the Prefrontal Cortex)?