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Hi Doctor Brown, my name is Lynn
Hi Lynn
I have a friend who has depression, but she also has been reading a lot lately
and she is wondering if she could also have ADD.
Is it possible to have both?
It certainly is possible to have ADHD with depression
or ADHD with an anxiety disorder
or ADHD with a learning disorder
or ADHD with drug or alcohol problems
there are a lot of other problems that a person can have with ADHD
it's just not possible, if you have ADHD
you have two to five times the chance of having one or more of these other difficulties.
What it takes is careful evaluation,
because if the problems are tied to ADHD those have usually been going on for a long time
and then often other problems come in on top of it.
There are a few symptoms that overlap, but a good evaluation
should make it possible to identify is this ADHD or is it depression
or as it often the case is it both.