Alia Bhatt Diagnosed With ADHD: What Is Attention Deficit Disorder? Know Symptoms & How It Affects Daily Life

Alia Bhatt Diagnosed With ADHD: Alia Bhatt, who is currently seen in Vasan Bala's Jigra, has been making headlines for more than one reason. One of the most successful actresses of the generation recently opened up about her struggle with ADHD or attention deficit disorder or hyperactivity disorder. The actress has been diagnosed with the symptoms after taking a psychological test and it is found that she is very high on the 'ADHD spectrum'. In her latest interview, she revealed that how she zoned out in the middle of the conversation and how she has short attention span. Here are the symptoms by which you can understand that it is time to seek medical help.

Symptoms Of ADHD

This is a neurodevelopmental disorder which is very common among people and often remain undiagnosed. Many people like Alia have been experiencing since childhood yet lead a professionally successful life. However, when it starts hindering the lifestyle, it is time to visit a doctor. So, let's take a look what are the common symptoms.

1. People with ADHD often deal with forgetfulness. This also affects the way how we remember things and mix up with brain's short term memory work with working memory.

2. People with ADHD often have time management problem due to active-dopamine dysfunction.

3. Because of challenges in managing neurotransmitters like dopamine, they also suffer challenges in putting attention at hand which leads to being hyperfocus when needed.

4. Due to neurotransmitter imbalance rejections can't be addressed in a healthy way leading to anxiety and overthinking.

5. People suffering from ADHD often have wandering mind because of the overactivity in the brain leading to thinking unrealistic things.

6. Procrastination is also the part of ADHD due to the under activity of prefrontal cortex that develops a problem of not understanding the urgency of certain work leading to push away the work.