Chicago - Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often suffer from depression as teenagers. Also, suicide attempts were in a long-term study in the Archives of General Psychiatry (2010, 67: 1052-1059) observed.
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's group Benjamin Lahey of the University of Chicago describes a group of 125 children in whom ADHD at the age of four to six years, has thus already been in preschool. Almost every second patient had to adulthood, at least one depressive episode. In 23 children with ADHD (18.4 percent) presented the Psychiatrist's diagnosis of depression (two or more episodes), about ten times more frequently than in a comparison group of matched children without ADHD.
Increases were also the rate of suicidal ideation (five times) and suicide attempts (twice). For a total of 23 children a suicide attempt was documented, but which resulted in no case to death. Although girls suffer less from an ADHD, was with them a higher risk of depression or suicide attempts than boys, says Lahey, who warns, however, against the danger of overestimating: About 80 percent of ADHD children can not be classified as suicidal.
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