Approximately 30% of teens with ADHD also struggle with anxiety or a clinical anxiety disorder. This session will review ADHD and anxiety symptoms and why anxiety commonly presents with ADHD. How anxiety impacts ADHD symptoms will be assessed, as well as how having ADHD can lead to or exacerbate anxiety. The difference between ADHD-related and other forms of anxiety will be discussed. Various treatment interventions of this diagnostic coupling will be highlighted.
Presented in Collaboration with McLean Hospital.