The diseases ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and ADD (attention deficit disorder) have partly different symptoms but above all different effects. Accordingly, they must also be treated differently.
ADHD and ADD: The difference is hyperactivity
In essence, the difference between ADHD and ADD is that hyperactivity is added to the symptoms of inattention and impulsiveness. For this reason children with ADHD are perceived as "Zappelphilipp", children with ADD seem rather dreamy and self-contained.
Children with ADD fall less than ADHD patients
Children with ADD are usually very quiet, do not interfere with the lesson and seem shy or even apathetic. Since they do not notice any further - unlike motorically hyperactive children - they are often able to conceal the disease. It also makes it more difficult to diagnose, which is why the persons concerned often do not receive professional help for a very long time.
ADD children live their own world of thought
In fact, they also suffer from an attention deficit as they are constantly sunk in their ever-changing thoughts. In a sense ADD children are thus also hyperactive - only the hyperactivity is directed inwards: the child lives his own world of thought - to the outside it is quiet, inwardly it is strongly agitated.
