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March 01, 2006by Sarah Jenkins ADD is often accompanied by a coexisting condition.

On the other hand, often ADD and these other conditions have similar symptoms and, therefore, are easily misdiagnosed.

Of course, this creates a plethora of problems as these disorders, when separate, must be treated differently.

A misdiagnosis will lead to ineffective treatment.

As coexisting conditions, these are especially of concern, because they increase the severity of many of the symptoms of ADD, as well as the negative impact on those that suffer them.

One such condition is Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder.

Children with this disorder tend to be very aggressive and defiant.

They usually lose their tempers very easily and challenge authority figures.

This is the most easily diagnosable behaviors, as teachers and parents become aware of this conduct quickly and seek treatment almost immediately.

This particular disorder is common in children that are the hyperactive/impulsive type of ADD and occurs in 35% of children with ADD.

This coexisting condition makes it much more likely that these sufferers will get i...

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...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b, medications CLOVER WHITHAM, Staff Writer Wednesday, March 1 BENNINGTON — The medical condition of a woman convicted of stealing her best friend's identity and committing a $50,000 fraud is standing in the way of a sentence being imposed.

Patricia M.

Hutson, 52, was sentenced in Bennington District Court last year to serve 60 days in jail.

But her attorney contends that if she is put behind bars, she will not get the medical attention she needs.

At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, a psychiatrist testified that Hutson relies on four medications to treat a ba href=/panic disorder/a/b and ward off seizures.

Dr.

Karen Mack, a psychiatrist and director of medical services at the United Counseling Service, said Hutson has been a patient of hers since May 1995.

According to Mack, Hutson suffers from a ba href=/panic disorder/a/b with agoraphobia, a "fear of closed in spaces where you can not escape or feel very confined." She said if Hutson was denied her current combination of medications she could have a fatal seizure or panic attack.

Mack said she believed Hutson would be denied at least one of the medications if she were jailed.

Mack feared Hutson would be given an inadequate substitute, if anything.

"I do not believe there is anything that would work as well for her," said Mack.

To prevent the symptoms from worsening, it is important for patients like Hutson to be in familiar surroundings and have the ability to come and go as they please, she said.

Also testifying was Deborah M...