My main question is… Can people be predisposed to having ADHD depression anxiety and other mental illnesses or is it a condition of circumstances
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It can be a combination of all the things you asked about. To be honest, we still haven’t figured out all the causes. You mention several disorders that may have both genetic and environmental influences. I am not sure what you mean by “condition of circumstances”.
Brain and mind health are difficult to understand and despite many decades of research, we still don’t understand them well (much like cancer, despite all of the research).
To answer your question more directly, Yes, you can be predisposed to ADHD, depression, and/or, anxiety. But WHY you are predisposed to those conditions is a matter of debate (inheritance/genetics versus environment) – we still haven’t figured this out yet definitively.
edit: these conditions are known to involve several neurotransmitters in the brain such as dopamine, serotonin, and/or norepinephrine (not an exhaustive list). Don’t believe anyone who tells you with ‘certainty’ that it is only one of these. We simply don’t fully know what causes these conditions.
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