Eine 18-jährige Studie ergab, dass Kinder mit der Diagnose ADHS im Erwachsenenalter in mehreren Lebensbereichen mit größeren Herausforderungen konfrontiert sind. Bei ihren Geschwistern kommt es zu typischen Erwachsenenfunktionen, was darauf hindeutet, dass viele langfristige Schwierigkeiten eher auf die Erkrankung selbst als auf die gemeinsame Erziehung in der Familie zurückzuführen sind.
Long-term study reveals how childhood ADHD impacts adult mental health, cognition, and daily life
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An 18-year follow-up study published in [*Psychiatry Research*](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2026.117308) provides evidence that children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tend to face broader challenges in adulthood across multiple areas of life compared to their peers. The study evaluated adults who were diagnosed in childhood alongside their non-ADHD siblings and an unrelated control group. The findings indicate that siblings of children with ADHD generally experience typical adult functioning, suggesting that many long-term difficulties are specific to the condition itself rather than shared family upbringing.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178126003689
That makes no sense – their upbringinging would be different BECAUSE of their ADHD – the challenges people face in the world wouldn’t be the same as the sibling without the disorder as they would have been treated differently.
Just because people grow up in the same home doesn’t mean they experienced the same conditions
I wonder how many families have all siblings dxed with ADHD and/or autism, like mine was
I thought this was known. People with adhd are more likely to use substances and be forced to go to court mandated anger management
One of my biggest concerns is if they actually evaluated the families for ADHD or it was word of mouth that the kid with obvious ADHD was the first one in the family to have ADHD because there are a lot of families from cultures who do not believe ADHD exists and if they do; The thought doesn’t occur to them that they themselves may be undiagnosed because they were forced to cope and conform no matter the damage it did to their mental health. Their family normalized suffering to conform instead of getting help because it was frowned upon to be neurodivergent.
I feel like the siblings would have also need to be evaluated because there are situations where one sibling is obviously more neurodivergent than the other sibling and a good chunk of resources go to helping the child with more issues and the sibling is forced to mask instead of receiving the same help their sibling is.
I think it’s valuable data but it needs to be refined and more date needs ro be gathered about the families culture, the families dynamics, families with a strong family history of ADHD, and ask more questions about what other factors could cause a person with ADHD
to not be stable with life balance.
People with disability experience symptoms of disability, hmm…
My parents were part of the „shrinks are evil“ generation so I didn’t get diagnosed until I went to college.
How can a study control for first child effect? I know plenty of families of multiple siblings with ADHD and the oldest one or youngest one always seems to bare the brunt of their parents‘ insecurities. It’s a lot harder to mask your symptoms under pressure, which makes them seem like the problem child.
It’s obvious that genuine ADHD brings challenges, so what’s the angle of this study? Basically is it saying that treatments for children aren’t fully doing the job because they continue to struggle as adults?
Standard ADHD medications are known to be effective, but one of their drawbacks is they can’t be used 24/7. You’ve gotta sleep at some point. Adults can medicate for their workday, but their evenings are unmedicated, and also there’s the phase right after a medication wears off where you’re zoned out and symptoms temporarily come back stronger than normal analogous to a minor withdrawal.
Any person with ADHD could have told you this. -_-
I’m so tired of what feels like a deluge of bad news about adhd. Given the existing challenge of keeping your self image above water if you have cash’s, this makes me want to hide under a blanket and stop reading r/science
As an adult with ADHD: Yes, we know. Now how can we fix this?
So a disability is disabling?! I could of never seen this coming