What is ADHD?
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It is one of the most common behavioral disorders for mostly children. Kids with ADHD are often hyper, have a hard time focusing, talkative and have difficulty controlling behavior. They can't sit still and be patient compared to other pupils which may be for a short period of time, or it can be permanent due to the genes.
What causes ADHD?
Many factors can be the cause of ADHD such as genes, environmental factors, brain injuries, sugar, food etc. Besides those causes the computer can be also a factor for this disorder. "Multi Tasking Mush Brain" means using internet for an excessive time, doing a lot of things at once which can cause ADHD. Multi tasking especially on social media can affect you because it makes you do other things at the same time and get distracted. It can also make you have difficulty controlling the amount of time and have hard time focusing on one thing that you are doing. For example, if you are doing work and chatting at the same time, you eventually get distracted, not wanting to do work and start having difficulty in controlling your behavior.
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How does it affect us?
Computers are the cause for ADHD, however ADHD can be a cause to use computers excessively. People in general who have ADHD, depression and social phobia are more likely to be addicted to computers because the computers can move at their pace, forget about the real world, talk to people easily online for people who have social phobia. So computers and ADHD interacts with each other, both being the cause and the result. These can result to other issues such as self esteem, depression, socialization, relationship, suicide, studies etc. and cause more diverse problems in the future as the world's information technology is developing day by day.
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Symptoms of ADHD
● Forget things and misses things easily
● Gets distracted really quickly ● Gets bored of the activity unless it is enjoyable ● Struggle to follow instructions ● Talk non stop ● Continuously be in motion ● Doesn't listen when they are spoken to |
What are the short term effects of ADHD?
● Social phobia
● Lying, cheating, stealing ● Bad education (Dropping out of school) ● Bad sleep patterns ● Low self esteem ● Teenage pregnancy |
What are the long term effects of ADHD?
● Suicide
● Bad relationship such as divorce ● Bad employment due to bad education ● Drug use that can lead to severe problems ● Have kids that can also have ADHD due to genes |