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How Can the Internet and Cell Phone Worsen Adult ADHD?

How Can the Internet and Cell Phone Worsen Adult ADHD? (0:39)

Adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) need to be more careful than other people when they're using their cell phone or computer. In this video, psychiatrist Sudeepta Varma, MD, explains why.

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In ADHD a person has a tendency to constantly get pulled into different stimuli, and if there, if you have cellphone or you have an iPad or you have MP3 player or you're watching television, the worst thing you can have is all of those things in one room because it's over stimulation, and with ADHD you're getting unindated as it is by normal stimuli that when you add the technology it makes it very hard for a person to focus and they may start one task and very quickly they get pulled into other tasks, may have difficulty prioritizing and difficulty kind of shutting off and saying oh my God I have an appointment, I need to leave, and often you'll see people not realizing that they have obligations and not until after the time is already passed.