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Allison Burk’s daughter was struggling. The American teenager had uncontrolled emotions, a decreased ability to pay attention, and trouble completing work on time. A family doctor suggested testing for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. This led to an unexpected discovery: The teen had ADHD, and her mother, Allison Burk, did too. During her daughter’s testing, Burk thought, “Wait a minute. This sounds familiar.” “I was able to piece together that this might be something I was experiencing,” said Burk, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She sought testing for herself and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 42. More adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. Diagnoses have been rising for at least 20 years, but seem to have increased sharply in the last few years. A recent government study suggested that more than 15 million adults in the United States, approximately 1 in 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. The condition starts in childhood, but about half of adults with ADHD are diagnosed when they are 18 or older. Some doctors say the number of people seeking ADHD testing is sharply increasing. “Just in our clinic, requests for assessments have doubled in the last two years,” said Justin Barterian. He is a psychologist based at Ohio State University. Diagnoses have been increasing in both kids and adults. The recent government report also found adult ADHD was more common than what earlier estimates had suggested. Increasing demand for ADHD medication led to severe shortages after the COVID 19 pandemic hit in March 2020. A 2023 study showed that the rise in prescriptions was notable in adults, especially among women. ADHD diagnoses and medication were increasing before the pandemic. This is partly because of a change in general diagnostic measures in 2013. Those changes expanded the definition of ADHD and reduced the number of symptoms required for diagnosis. But cases really seemed to increase in 2020, when schools closed and many adults were forced to work from home. It is very difficult to focus when you are home with your kids. Such conditions may have worsened ADHD symptoms in people with less severe cases.
Allison Burk’s daughter was struggling. The American teenager had uncontrolled emotions, a decreased ability to pay attention, and trouble completing work on time. A family doctor suggested testing for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. This led to an unexpected discovery: The teen had ADHD, and her mother, Allison Burk, did too. During her daughter’s testing, Burk thought, “Wait a minute. This sounds familiar.” “I was able to piece together that this might be something I was experiencing,” said Burk, who lives in Columbus, Ohio. She sought testing for herself and was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 42. More adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. Diagnoses have been rising for at least 20 years, but seem to have increased sharply in the last few years. A recent government study suggested that more than 15 million adults in the United States, approximately 1 in 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. The condition starts in childhood, but about half of adults with ADHD are diagnosed when they are 18 or older. Some doctors say the number of people seeking ADHD testing is sharply increasing. “Just in our clinic, requests for assessments have doubled in the last two years,” said Justin Barterian. He is a psychologist based at Ohio State University. Diagnoses have been increasing in both kids and adults. The recent government report also found adult ADHD was more common than what earlier estimates had suggested. Increasing demand for ADHD medication led to severe shortages after the COVID 19 pandemic hit in March 2020. A 2023 study showed that the rise in prescriptions was notable in adults, especially among women. ADHD diagnoses and medication were increasing before the pandemic. This is partly because of a change in general diagnostic measures in 2013. Those changes expanded the definition of ADHD and reduced the number of symptoms required for diagnosis. But cases really seemed to increase in 2020, when schools closed and many adults were forced to work from home. It is very difficult to focus when you are home with your kids. Such conditions may have worsened ADHD symptoms in people with less severe cases.
How did the pandemic exacerbate ADHD symptoms in some individuals?
- A Increased screen time during the pandemic directly caused a rise in ADHD cases.
- B Remote work and school closures created an environment with more distractions.
- C Many people developed ADHD due to increased stress and isolation during the pandemic.
- D During the pandemic, doctors introduced new diagnostic criteria that made ADHD easier to identify.
- E The lack of structured routines during the pandemic made it more difficult to manage ADHD symptoms.
思路引導 VIP
如果您在閱讀最後一段時，試著想像那些突然被迫待在家裡工作、身邊還有孩子在吵鬧的成年人，他們在處理公務時會面臨什麼樣的「環境壓力」？這種壓力與他們原本在辦公室的環境相比，最大的不同點是什麼？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你的觀察非常敏銳，準確捕捉到了文章中關於大流行影響的關鍵細節。這道題目要求我們找出疫情如何加劇 ADHD 症狀，而答案確實隱藏在文章最後一段的邏輯推導中。
環境變遷與專注力挑戰
文章提到，2020 年因疫情導致學校關閉且許多成年人被迫居家辦公，並特別點出「與孩子待在家裡時很難集中注意力」（It is very difficult to focus when you are home with your kids）。這句話正是選項 (B) 的直接證據：遠距辦公與停課造成了一個充滿更多**干擾（distractions）**的環境，進而讓症狀變得更加明顯。你能夠避開誘答項，精準定位這段因果關係，表現得非常專業。
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