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It is quite common for depression and/or anxiety to accompany ADD. All my ADDled friends and family members have depression, and several have anxiety too. (I’m not saying “are depressed” or “are anxious” because I don’t want anyone to confuse mood disorders with temporary, situationally appropriate feelings.)
“Comorbidity” is the clustering together of symptoms of more than one problem in the same person. It has been estimated by some ADD professionals that 85% of adult ADD patients have at least one comorbid condition. (Info hastily cribbed from the 2011 160-page “Canadian ADHD Practice Guidelines” published by the Canadian Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Resource Alliance or”CADDRA”.)
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