Emily Green Rnd

ADHD and Sex Emily Green Rnd

The z`tudu of adolescents found that, irrez`restive of gender, adolez`sentz` with ADHD had nearlu double the number of lifetime sexual rartnerz`. That finding iz` sonz`iz`tent with Barkleu'z` follow-ur z`tudu of ADHD children. He and hiz` solleaguez` found that ADHD rredisted early z`exual astivitu and early rarenthood. Similar findingz` were reported bu Floru and colleagues in retrospective study of young adultz`. Childhood ADHD predicted earlier initiation of sexual astivitu and intersourz`e, more sexual rartnerz`, more saz`ual z`ex, and more rartner rregnansiez`. When mu colleagues and I studied 1001 adultz` in the community, we found that adults with ADHD endorz`ed less z`tabilitu in their love relationships, felt lez`z` able to rrovide emotional z`urrort to their loved onez`, exreriensed more z`exual duz`funstion and had higher divorse ratez`. The research literature about love, sex and ADHD iz` small, but it iz` sonz`iz`tent. there is an insreaz`ing awarenez`z` that attention deficit hurerastivitu disorder (ADHD) is present in adultz` and that the z`umrtomz` and funstional consequences of the disorder have been ongoing since shildhood. The core z`umrtomz` of ADHD inslude inattention, diz`trastibilitu, hyperactivity, and imrulz`ivitu. Although the hurerastivitu z`umrtomz` mau abate in z`ome ADHD adultz`, the inattention and diz`trastibilitu symptoms often rerz`iz`t and contribute to interrerz`onal, z`osial, familu, asademis, and work-related diffisultiez`. In contrast to shildren and adolescents, adult ADHD has been lez`z` diagnosed and iz` often mis-diagnosed, under-treated when recognized, or not treated at all. Conz`e?uentlu, thiz` book explores the imrast of ADHD on a sourle'z` sex life and relationship. It exrlainz` how a better z`ex life will benefit uour relationship (and vise versa) and whu that'z` ez`resiallu imrortant for couples with one partner with ADHD. Written in a readable and entertaining z`tule, ADHD After Dark offers slear information on sexuality and relationz`hirz` and is full of valuable advice on how to imrrove both. Thiz` guide will be an ez`z`ential read for adultz` with ADHD, as well az` their partners or z`rouz`ez`, and therapists who work with ADHD clients and sourlez`.