The Missing Link Between ADHD and Anger

追加: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]ADHD children are 11 times more likely to develop oppositional defiant disorder within 2 years of the onset of their ADHD. Why? What do those disorders have to do with each other? Now they're treated as simply comorbidity. Oh well, they go together, but we're not sure.

[00:00:13]But if you put emotion back into ADHD, you see the connection right into ODD.

[00:00:19]Because everybody with ADHD is automatically subclinically ODD at the get-go. In other words, ADHD causes ODD.

[00:00:27]That is an important thing to understand because the ODD, while it does have some social influences over it, half of ODD is the inability to manage frustration, impatience, and anger. And that will set you up for the second component of ODD, which is interaction [music] conflict, defiance, arguing. But the first four symptoms of the eight in ODD, anger, temper, hostility, easily annoyed, irritability, [music] and that is part of ADHD.