Could You Have Hyperactive/impulsive ADHD? (9 Signs)

[Music] adult adhd is something that impacts a lot of people across the planet and there are some hidden signs specifically in the hyperactive impulsive dimension of adhd that you should be aware of here to go through those signs is dr judy dr judy lovely to see you as always nice to see you too kyle the first one is fidgets with or taps hands or feet squirms in the seat sounds like a description of me when i was in second grade how is this uh related to an adult living with adhd well you make a good point generally adults who have hyperactive impulsive symptoms they've learned to have a little bit better management of them by the time that they hit adulthood but not everyone so i'm sure we've all seen that co-worker who's in a meeting and you can hear them tapping their pen or you can see them moving positions in their seat multiple times during a meeting and obviously not all of those individuals have adhd but those are some of those behavioral manifestations that you'll see and so certainly in those situations where you're kind of expected to be sitting still to be behaving in a more professional demeanor you can see them kind of not quite being able to do that and they may also hide these types of symptoms by just getting up a lot to get some water or all of a sudden they have to tie their shoe or now they have to go to the bathroom for the third time in an hour right it's just so that they can move around and essentially deal with that hyperactive impulsive side of this particular condition so let's tease those out because you you went into the second sign which is leave seats in situations when remaining seated should be expected and i under actually understand if somebody's in a meeting and they're just you know doing this with their hands or bouncing their knee but how is it that somebody can't have the self-control to not get up during a meeting in which you are expected to stay seated well it's interesting when i talk to people who have adhd and the hyperactive impulsive subtype they'll say they feel like inside they're getting very jittery like they feel like they're driven by a motor you hear those types of descriptions for individuals who suffer from the symptom because that's what causes them to not be able to sit still and despite knowing that the social protocol is to stay still that feeling welling up inside them is so difficult to manage that they just have to get out of their seat it's like they have no choice it feels like a compulsion that they have to follow yeah that that makes sense number three really ties into the first two points which is experiences feelings of restlessness now in those feelings of restlessness that you mentioned would adults living with adhd have experienced those feelings of restlessness as a child absolutely most individuals who are diagnosed with adhd hyperactive impulsive type as an adult they will usually think back on their childhood and say oh yeah i have these symptoms when i was a kid and plus they were much much worse and this feeling of restlessness can sometimes be confused with feelings of anxiety kind of feeling like there's something else going on that might be anxiety provoking versus just a feeling of restlessness and certainly we see that anxiety does co-occur in individuals with adhd but sometimes they can't really tell what it is but they just can't stay still they just can't calm down and that's that feeling of restlessness that we see that causes them to sometimes be more spontaneous and other times more impulsive and maybe do things that later on they regret oh man i really shouldn't have done that in that particular setting that makes perfect sense our fourth one is having difficulty engaging in quiet or leisurely activities this is a little different because certainly if you don't want to be in that long two-hour meeting you might get a little fidgety and have those feelings inside that make you get up from the table but if you enjoy kayaking and you're kayaking but you're having difficulty engaging in kayaking that could be a sign of adhd dr judy am i getting this right yeah well certainly i think when we're talking about something like kayaking it's quite physical in individuals with adhd they tend to do well with physical activity so they may not have so much problem kayaking because part of their body is still moving and they're able to be in motion i think it's more difficult when you think about that meeting that's that people have and you're supposed to be working or reading something quietly and then maybe discussing as a group well instead of discussing uh just waiting for the discussion and instead of being able to read quietly they might be having little smart alec asides to the person next to them or whispering to the person sitting next to them about something completely unrelated and that's what we really see with individuals as adults who they can't do these things quietly when you're instructed to they just feel like they have to interject or start talking about something else yes understood if you're watching this video and find it helpful why don't you hit that subscribe button or give it a thumbs up it helps us spread this credentialed information and more to people all over the planet thank you for supporting credentialed mental health education let's go to number five this the trait of is on the go or acts as if driven by a motor something you brought up earlier i know that person who's always on the go how would this relate to adhd traits so this is the person who you're sitting down to dinner and everybody's finally gonna enjoy sitting down talking about the day and throughout dinner you get up multiple times it's like you have to do something oh i have to still turn off the oven i have to go and put this in the dishwasher all those things i can wait until a little later but in your mind they have to be done now and that has to be part of the executive function deficits that a lot of individuals who with adhd have which means that their brain has difficulty prioritizing and organizing and planning for certain tasks and it actually makes them more inefficient overall because if you think about it getting up out of your seat 10 times to try to clean up pieces of your kitchen certainly is not as efficient as just doing it all at the end of the meal right but for some reason they just feel like they have to do that thing now and so it does relate in part to some of the executive function deficits that we know adults with adhd have so some of the thought process behind that for an individual could be well i look how efficient i'm being look at how productive i'm being because i'm i'm getting up 10 times i'm constantly on the go but if you really looked at the the output unbiasedly it could indicate well you're not being that productive you're just moving around a lot yeah and you're tiring yourself out and maybe frustrating your family members yeah yeah okay okay i'm understanding this number six is talking excessively and number seven is blurting out answers why don't you take those on yeah so this is really interesting because again the person who will complain the most is the partner of the person with these symptoms where they just can't seem to wait their turn for conversations they can't do the back and forth they start interrupting people before they're finished um try to finish other people's sentences even people they just met um maybe two people are talking you just run right in and cut in on their conversation without just waiting for that socially appropriate time to interject and introduce yourself so it could look like that they may not be socially savvy that might be what it looks like to the average person but really it's not because they're not being socially savvy it's because they've thought of something they want to say and they need to say it right now it's again that compulsion that impulse is saying no but i need to get in on this conversation right now and i can't even wait those three or four seconds for this person to finish their thought before i interject yeah we have two more that are on the same plane but i want to ask a clarifying question here i am a talker okay and i'm especially a talker after i've been listening for a long time so you know there have been days at med circle where i'll film all day and a big part of my job is to just sit here and listen and then bridget the producer and i would get in a car and go back to the office and i would just unload i'd go blah blah blah what about this and what did you think of that and i'd just start talking a lot because i had been quiet for so long now that type of excessive talking the way i look at that as well it's a it's a it's like a release valve and normally day to day i think i have a good ability to have a give and take in a conversation with someone who's talking excessively as it relates to this type of adhd this would be something that would happen all the time or most of the time it would happen at times that are generally kind of inopportune um where it's very clear that they're just barging in on a conversation and certainly the ways that we behave sometimes with people that we're really familiar with with our friends with our family there's could also be some differences there but the individual with adhd it's like they're like this with anybody it's not just oh i'm just doing this to uh annoy my sister or like this is just kind of how me and my partner like we're both kind of type a and we kind of talk over each other all the time it's a bad habit no we're talking about yes it is persistent across situations and even with new people where most of the time people have that sort of self-awareness of oh i'm just meeting this person let me you know figure out what the setting is about first before i speak they don't really do that they kind of just run in and whether or not they're being rude and whether or not they recognize it when i talk to people with adhd they just say i couldn't help it like i just really had to say something in that moment yeah yeah okay i understand this number eight is having difficulty waiting their turn certainly we talked about this in regards of conversations but does this all supply of waiting in lines waiting in a drive-through waiting at the airport well i i would say that is a very interesting symptom only because i don't know anybody who likes to wait their turn who likes to wait in line is that on anybody's top 10 list of things yeah i just love to wait in a lot yeah isn't that great yeah i don't think that that's anybody that i know but i think it's that idea of it's so bad for them that it impedes their life so one example would be you hate waiting so much that you could have actually gone through the supermarket picked out all your items for dinner that day and then because you saw the line was so long instead of just saying man i have to wait in this line nobody likes it but i'm gonna do it you just drop all your groceries and leave you know it impedes your life to a degree where you can't get things done efficiently or it causes you frustration and distress to the point that you're not able to check off your to-do list and meet your responsibilities i think that that's really the difference you know one of the things that i thought about is when i go to disneyland i hate waiting in line for rides who loves them nobody loves lines but you know what if i really want to go on a ride i'm going to wait in that line right um somebody with adhd they may say i don't want to wait in this line they get into a whole argument with their family or friends because they're all saying no we want to wait in this line we want to go on this ride and you're saying that it's so intolerable that you can't even wait with them and you just leave the park or you say fine goodbye i'll see you in two hours you know upsets everybody else that's the kind of issue i think people tend to have when they have this symptom as a sufferer of adhd yeah and for those watching um i want to be very clear that these these traits are in no way meant to be used as a diagnostic tool and you would need to get that diagnosis from a professional and also i don't want to pathologize anybody's just natural state some of us talk a little more than others that doesn't mean we're diagnosed with adhd it just means we talk a little bit more um so you know all of this is with a grain of salt to just get people thinking about themselves and others in their lives this last one is interrupting or intruding on others now we've talked about the interrupting component but what do we mean about intruding on other people well let's say somebody's in the middle of doing something they're clearly in the middle of working on a task and you go right into their office you say i need to talk to you right now if it's not a real emergency why are you doing that why are you intruding on somebody who's clearly in the middle of something else or maybe there's two people clearly working on a project and you're expecting them to drop that project so that you can address whatever concerns you have at the moment and so for most of us we might want to do that there might be an impulse for us to do like oh i really just want to get this done but you'll hold back and you'll say hey is this a good time and if they say not really you say okay well when can i come back right even if you're a little disappointed you wanted to get it done now um generally individuals with adhd they don't have that kind of planning so they don't think okay maybe let me just come back in 20 minutes and see where they're at then they just kind of have to get it done right now and right in this moment well those were the nine but i do want to wrap up here with next steps for anybody who might see these or hear these and go oh that kind of sounds like me i i was like really resonating with five or more of these what what would be their next best step well the next best step is to not self-diagnose and to find a qualified professional to talk about this with and i would also suggest that when you go to this qualified professional don't say hey i took this adhd self-test at med circle and i think i have adhd hyperactive impulsive subtype let the provider come to that conclusion themselves let them ask you the questions they feel is necessary and give you the assessments necessary to make the correct diagnosis because otherwise you're going to be leading them into a diagnosis that you either may or may not have other types of mental conditions might look like adhd from anxiety to depression to maybe the remnants of a traumatic brain injury to the effects of substance abuse and that's just a few off of the top of my head there's many many more so definitely make sure that you work with a qualified professional really really excellent points and dr judy has a fabulous fabulous fabulous series on adult adhd y'all it's fabulous the link is below go watch that if you or someone you know and love you think might be struggling with some of these symptoms dr judy pleasure to see you as always thank you for being here and watching this video remember whatever you're going through you got this [Music]

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Length: 14min 13sec (853 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 26 2022