ADHD in Adults. Interference with Personality Disorders

This paper refers to attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder in adults (ADHD) addressing the relationship between it and personality disorders. ADHD, considered until recent years a childhood disorder, after the new classification of mental illness -DSM-5, is more common in adults. The issue discussed is extensively researched in the literature recently, being a topic of interest, taking into account the fact that if in many diagnostic groups DSM-5 kept the previous vision, the ADHD disorder changes led to some notable differences. It is now clear that the symptoms of ADHD are seen as a relatively constant component throughout the life of the individual, with possible attenuations with age, but with the persistence of a proportion of manifestations in adults, which could be unnoticed until now. This vision is very close to the classic descriptions of personality, hence the possibility of a comparison between the two pathologies. The new perspective in ICD 11 also follows the DSM-5 t