Symptoms of impaired activity and attention
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Symptoms of impaired activity and attention are different in different age groups (preschool children, school children, adolescents, adults). There is evidence that 25-30% of children retain the main manifestations of the syndrome, becoming adults.
Children of preschool age differ from peers high motor activity already in the first years of life. They are in constant movement, running around, jumping, trying to climb, where they can, grabbing everything that is before their eyes, without hesitation, break and throw objects. They are guided by a tireless curiosity and "fearlessness", because of what they often find themselves in traumatic situations - they can fall into pits, undergo a current shock, break from a tree, get burns, etc. They can not wait. The desire must be fulfilled here and now. At retention, refusal, observation children arrange hysterics or experience attacks of anger, often accompanied by verbal and physical aggression.
The children of school age retain the basic characteristics of preschool children. They can not sit quietly at the study table, spinning, spinning, talking, laughing when it's inappropriate, giving cues, getting up, walking around the class, breaking lessons, disrupting the learning process. In their free time, they can not wait for turn in games, play by the rules, prefer noisy, destructive fun, because of which conflicts arise with peers who do not take them into games, drive them away, which causes retaliatory aggression and resentment. At this age, attention disorders become more noticeable. Children constantly drop, lose, forget their things. During classes because of inattention allow a lot of mistakes, do not have time to finish a class assignment, write a job on the house. Houses can not rationally organize the process of doing homework, they need organizing help from adults. Faced with difficulties, they give violent affective reactions. In general, they give the impression of immature, not corresponding to their age infantile children.
In adolescence, undergoing a certain age transformation, the symptoms persist in 50-80% of children. Hyperactivity is replaced by a sense of inner anxiety with restlessness, fussiness, a desire to change classes. Attention deficit and impulsiveness persist in sufficient measure. Many adolescents are distinguished by recklessness, disregard for the rules of social behavior, safety standards, involvement in extreme forms of behavior, which leads to injuries and accidents. Training requires a lot of emotional stress from them, which they can not withstand for a long time. They study unevenly even with good abilities. All the important things are postponed for later and do at the last moment somehow. Many adolescents observe low self-esteem, unsteadiness of mood with propensity to use alcohol and drugs. Often adolescents are involved in antisocial groups.
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