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hi my name’s john boswell tumble licensed mental health counselor in

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saint petersburg florida i’d like to speak a little bit about diagnosing

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adult attention deficit disorder

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diagnosing adult adult attention deficit disorder usually comes about almost by

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mistake in some cases a lot of people will take their kid

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or their child into the pediatrician to a psychologist or a mental health

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counselor

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or mental health professional not find out that their child has attention

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deficit disorder by being educated about the disorder sometimes they realize hey

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i had that you know the same cluster of symptoms are i’ve kinda been

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experiencing the same thing throughout my life and never really knew what it

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was

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now sometimes i could be really important we can get a proper diagnosis

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of the type of adult you know on certain attention deficit disorder but sometimes

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we have to be really careful in this is where diagnosis can become complicated

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as we need to rule out some other things like anxiety

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or depression oran

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situational factors such as you know adjustment disorder or maybe there’s

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some certain stressors and

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in somebody’s life

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and the stress associated with that mimics the eighty day or the

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attention deficit hyperactivity

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so its best really ended in adult in diagnosing adult so they needed to

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really go through it

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not only a behavioral checklist of the symptoms with your

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medical or mental health provider but also

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maybe taking subject listen some test such as the bender gestalt

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or the connor rating for

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to actually get some more psychometric dada for your diagnosis but the key is

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to rule out some other you know some other

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mental health problems like i mentioned before anxiety depression

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but just wanted to order stands like that

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and then finally

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in conjunction with the mental health and evaluation i would also recommend

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that the medical exam be performed because some nutritional deficits or

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some poor model imbalances can also

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produce some of the same effects that we see an adult

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onset attention deficit disorder first

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these are ways of diagnosing adult onset a_d_d_ lady h_ d_ and my name is john

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boswell

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practice in saint petersburg florida