The Risks of Trauma in Children With ADHD

There's also some environmental circumstances that can make someone more vulnerable for experiencing trauma when having ADHD. The younger a person is at the time of traumatic exposure or event as well as the severity of the trauma does increase a person's risk for developing PTSD afterward. Children and adolescents with ADHD overall tend to get hurt more often and more severely than peers without ADHD. They're significantly more likely to get injured while walking or riding a bicycle, have head injuries, injure more than one part of their body,. Emotional abuse and neglect are more common among men and women that have ADHD.