Do you have a colleague at your workplace who just “zones out” during any meeting and whose mind needs to be brought back to the current situation? Or a family member who everyone says “has the attention span of a goldfish”? Or maybe a friend, who irritates you with his poor listening skills?
Well then, what you see may not just be because of a disinterested co-worker, careless family member or insensitive friend. It may mean that these people are suffering from a fast-emerging medical condition called Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder or simply, ADHD. The Merriam- Webster Dictionary defines ADHD as a syndrome of disordered learning and disruptive behavior that is not caused by any serious underlying physical or mental disorder and that has several subtypes characterized primarily by symptoms of inattentiveness or primarily by symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsive behavior (as…
