ADHD or something else?

I posted this somewhere else but...

Out of sheer morbid curiosity...

I was watching the episode of VH1 "Driven" with the Dixie Chicks and lead singer Natalie Maines' parents were talking about her childhood. They were saying how, as a child, she would be very agressive, and bounce off the walls constantly. One time she apparently started hitting her older sister over the head with an Atari controller, another time she peeled all the paint off the walls in one corner of her room with her fingernails. Out of curiosity, are these symptoms of ADHD or something else? I'm writing a novel in which the main character is a teenager with ADHD, and I need to include some interesting incidents from her childhood... are these ADHD type things?

Are these ADHD type behaviors? Not necessarily. They are also symptoms of impulse disorder, ODD and some forms of autism and some developmental disorders. These acting-out behaviors can also be a result of poor parenting.

If you wish to develop a character who has ADHD, I suggest you go to web sites about it and review the symptoms as part of your research. Source(s): I'm a nurse.

No violence is not a sympton of ADHD.

The violence could be bipolar (manic depressive).

The paint could be OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

An ADHD symptom would be something like wandering off a mall and getting lost, or supposed to be watching the baby in the bath and letting it drown.
here, go look at this site.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/symptom.h...
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/symptom.h...
It could be ADHD. Those are some of the symptoms. They could easily be symptoms of something else, too, though.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhd.cf...