Is ADHD a new condition?
ADHD is NOT a new condition.
The term ADHD may have been agreed relatively recently but its symptoms have been recognised for many years. The poem _ The Story of Fidgety Philip - written in 1865 by German physician Heinrich Hoffman is perhaps the first known description of a child exhibiting many of the symptoms we have now come to accept as helping to define ADHD.
From this date, there are many other examples. In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder established it for the first time.
