Wellness Wednesday - Are you living with OCD or ADHD?

Wellness Wednesday is back on the Brian The Hammer Show and this week Brian welcomes back the President of Matrix Integrated Health Specialists, Liz Law.

This weeks Topic: OCD & ADD

-Approximately 2.3% of the population between ages 18-54 suffers from OCD, which out ranks mental disorders such as: Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder or Panic Disorder.

In the U.S. approximately 3.3 million people have OCD of which you have 0.3 to 1% of pediatric population and 2% of adult population. So about 1 out of 200 adults have OCD and twice as many have had OCD at 1 point or another in their life.

-In the United States The American Psychiatric Association states in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) that 3%-7% of school aged children have ADHD1. However, studies have estimated higher rates in community samples

Rates of ADHD diagnosis increased an average of 3% per year from 1997 to 2006 and an average of 5.5% per year from 2003 to 2007.

Boys (13.2%) were more likely than girls (5.6%) to have ever been diagnosed with ADHD.

Rates of ADHD diagnosis increased at a greater rate among older teens as compared to younger children.

The highest rates of parent-reported ADHD diagnosis were noted among children covered by Medicaid and Multiracial children.

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