Open Care Medical Center - Orange County's Leading Multispeciality Clinic

- Individualized strategy depending on your specific needs
- Integrated approach towards ADHD involving evaluation, counseling and treatment
- Same day appointments and walk-ins Monday through Saturday
- Knowledgeable and friendly staff answers calls and returns messages quickly
- Fast response to patient needs with convenient location

Our physicians, and medical staff work together with you to assure you of the best outcomes. During your initial visit our doctors will speak with you and evaluate you, and your medical history and other relevant information. With this information our physician will formulate a plan and diagnosis of your situation. Next, we will work with you to customize a treatment plan together that is specifically tailored to your needs. For medication, you will receive a prescription which you can fill at a pharmacy.

Treatment options will be provided, with their benefits, and side effects discussed. This is part of our integrated approach towards a complete and effective solution. If we believe we are not able to help with your situation effectively, we have a list of experienced referral clinics and psychiatrists. Ultimately, you can rest assured that your needs will be taken care of one way or another.

You're not just another number.

At Open Care, we really take the time to get to know you and what you want help with. Our physicians work intensively at helping you feel better again, quickly and efficiently. Since we are all in this together, we are fully committed to helping you and teaching you effective strategies that can last a lifetime.

We strongly advise against purchasing ADHD treatments illegally - you are taking a serious health risk as well as a risk with the law. Someone who is not a medically trained professional may not be able to distinguish between various interactions and psychiatric symptoms, mental health and medical conditions. The most effective and most thorough evaluations, diagnosis, counseling and treatment planning for psychiatric disorders are done by licensed physicians or psychiatrists with special medical training. Vendors who are not medically trained may not fully understand how psychiatric conditions, especially psychiatric conditions that remain undiagnosed and untreated, may adversely affect one's medical health - they are most often interested only in your money and not your health. If you are self medicating you should come in and see our doctor - do it the safe way and save yourself from future legal problems and health risks.

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Orange County ADHD

Imagine everything around you constantly changing. The feeling of boredom occurs easily and even though you want to, you are simply unable to concentrate on the things you need to complete. Your mind is constantly distracted with the buzz of things happening around you, driving you carelessly from one activity to the next. Your thoughts envelope your mind, distracting you from participating in any important task. Even someone speaking to you goes unnoticed.

For a lot of people, this feeling of helplessness is what it feels like to suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). These people may not be able to sit in one place for a long time, make long term plans, finish important tasks, or be completely aware of what’s happening around them. Their family, friends and colleagues find them to be confused and disorganized. On some days, they behave completely normal, misleading others to believe that they can actually control their behavior. This can cause severe strain in their relationships with others, disrupt their social life, and make them lose their
own sense of worth.

ADHD, previously known as hyperkinesis or minimal brain dysfunction, is a type of mental disorder that is commonly found in children. ADHD affects around 3-5% of all children, two thirds of more boys than girls. Nearly 2 million American children suffer from this disorder. ADHD carries on with the person into their teenage years and adulthood, causing the person to become an emotional wreck of unfulfilled
ambitions and dreams.

If you thought that there is nothing you can do about this, you’re wrong. There is help to tackle this condition. Extensive research has enabled scientist to identify this disorder in children, teenagers and adults and treat it accordingly. Modern science has developed a number of treatments, therapies that can help change a person’s behavior, and educational opportunities to help people with ADHD become more focused, develop their self-esteem, and improve their behavior to be more productive.

Hyperactivity: Hyperactive people constantly seem to be busy with something or the other. They are unable to sit in one place and they speak incessantly and move around all the time. Sitting through an entire lecture can seem to be an impossible thing to do. Children that are hyperactive are often seen wandering around in the room or fidgeting with things. You may find them tapping their pencil on the desk, trying to reach out to everything around them and constantly shake their legs. Teenagers and adults who are hyperactive may feel extremely restless at most times. They attempt to carry out several tasks at once, juggling multiple things at one time.

Impulsive: Impulsive people act without thinking as they are not able to control their reactions to situations. This causes them to blurt out things or pass inappropriate comments without considering someone else’s feelings. Because of their over impulsive behavior, they may be extremely impatient while waiting in a queue or waiting for their turn to arrive in a game. An impulsive child may grab another child’s toy or throw things around when they’re upset.

Orange County Attention Deficit Doctor

People who are hyperactive or impulsive may not necessarily suffer from an attention disorder. Everyone tends to blurt out an opinion, juggle multiple things at one time, forget important tasks, and be disorganized at some time or the other in our lives. So how do specialists really tell if a person has
ADHD?

In order to find out if a person is suffering from ADHD; specialists have to take into account a number of critical questions: Do these behaviors exist in excess and are they pervasive? Do other people who are of the same age behave in an identical manner? Are these behaviors constant or are they temporary? What kind of settings do these behaviors occur in? Specialists assess the person’s behavioral patterns against these and a number of other criteria to be sure of ADHD. You can have a look at these criteria in a diagnostic reference book known as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders).

As per the DSM, three basic behavioral patterns give an indication of ADHD. A person with ADHD may be endlessly inattentive, over impulsive and hyperactive. They may shows signs of either one of these behaviors or all three of them.

The DSM states the following signs of inattentiveness:-

•Getting easily distracted by various sounds and figures.
•Unable to pay attention to tasks and making silly mistakes.
•Unable to adhere to instructions and follow them completely.
•Losing stuff like pencils, toys, colors, books and other needed things to complete a task.

Hyperactivity and Impulsivity include the following signs:-

•Restlessness, fidgeting with your hands and legs, and twisting your body from side to side due to
discomfort.
•Getting up and leaving when you are required to sit down.
•Interrupting people while they speak and blurting out opinions.
•Unable to patiently wait in line or wait for your turn in a game.

As everyone shows these signs at some point in their lives, the DSM has detailed guidelines that can be used to determine if a person has ADHD. A person should show these behaviors before the age of 7 and they should last for a minimum of 6 months. Children with ADHD should display these behaviors more often and excessively than other children of the same age. These behaviors should cripple at least two important areas such as home, work, school or the social life of a person. If two or more areas are not affected, the person may not be diagnosed with ADHD.

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Causes

ADHD has severe effects on a child’s performance in school and his social life. Parents of these children are most certainly frustrated with their child’s underperformance and exhausted with countering it.

Because ADHD is genetic, it occurs in early childhood and develops along with the developing brain of a child.

Signs of depression, learning disabilities, lack of sleep, and other behavioral problems may often be mixed with signs of ADHD or even be confused with Attention disorder. Children that show symptoms of ADHD or other behavioral issues need to be carefully evaluated in order to fully understand the different
causes of their behavior.

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is diagnosed very frequently in childhood. This disorder affects around 3 to 5 percent of school going children and is found more frequently in boys than in girls.

Children suffering from ADHD may also suffer for one or more developmental and behavioral issue.

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