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ADHD medications increased by 18% each year since 2019, the year of Covid a study published on the 12th of March this year announced
Research from experts at the University of Huddersfield and Aston University suggested there was an upward trend in prescriptions for the condition in each region across England.
The BBC report claimed the study advanced two reasons for this increase. The first was due to an increase in social media posting about the condition.
The second one, which I find very interesting, is said to be due to the increase of the worsening of ADHD symptoms with the impact of Covid.
This increase occurred despite a shortage of ADHD medications world wide.
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There are studies that prove that everything is both good and bad for you! Dare I say it, it depends who is paying the piper who is playing for her or his supper!
It seems to me that all you have to do is dream up something you would like to see, or better still, something that fits your view of your world, ask a few people some questions you have carefully created so that your point will be proven, check the figures, and make a huge statement.
As ADDers we are bombarded all the time by people telling us what we mustn't eat or drink, and rather less frequently, what we must eat and drink.
Have you noticed how the things that are "good" for us are so-called healthy things like raw carrots and broccoli, while the "bad" things for us are the nice things we love, like chocolate, and coffee.
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The dream was vivid, bright high-resolution visuals and realistic surround sound. A roaring beast was chasing me on a mountain top and suddenly I came to a cliff edge - off to the left I desperately saw a flimsy rope bridge. I narrowly evaded a brutal toe as the beast tried sweep me up into his mouth. I ran onto the rope bridge - when I got to the middle the bridge started to sway violently - then a bolt of lightening struck the rope just in front of me and I fell into the abyss…
I woke up on my knees next to my bed, clutching the sheet, with my poor wife staring at me in horror. I dream every night, and most nights I thrash around - never waking up in the same place where I went to sleep.
The last few years have not had as many terrors as the one described above, but it is like I live in many different worlds when my eyes shut out the conscious world.
Around about the time I turned one, my mother noticed that I was scratching my pillow to keep myself awake. Seventy years on and I have simply found other techniques to avoid sleeping.
Most of my working life I thrived on around 4 hours sleep a night. Being a news photographer during a turbulent time in Southern Africa almost demanded that one be able to function on minimal sleep.
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| SLEEP DISORDER TYPE | RATIO |
| Narcolepsy - daytime sleepiness | 70 Times |
| Cataplexy - sudden loss of muscle tone leading to collapse | 70 Times |
| Hypersomnia - excessive sleeping | 20 Times |
| Sleep/wake schedule circadian rhythms | 19 Times |
| Insomnia | 16 Times |
| Restless Leg Syndrome | 7 Times |
| Nightmares | 7 Times |
| Sleep Walking | 6 Times |
| Sleep Terrors | 5 Times |
In Part Two of this article on sleep issues and ADHD I am going to break the very accurate Swedish Statistics on the subject. In Part One I looked the figures for sleep disturbances as one group.
Now I will break the figures down into 8 different categories and how uncommon they are compared top non-ADHD people.
Here are the figures from the highest to the lowest.
The Swedish team that undertook this study concluded their work saying this:
“Our findings also suggest that greater clinical attention should be directed towards addressing sleep problems in individuals with ADHD. This entails implementing proactive measures through sleep education programmes and providing both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches such as cognitive behavioural therapy and parental sleep training.”
Print Edition is long since sold out, the revised pdf version available soon
I have been coaching people with ADHD for 20-plus years, and I know that they either have lots of money or hardly any.
