Eli5: why do caffeine and energy drinks make an ADHD person sleep?
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It doesn’t make an ADHD person sleep, but it doesn’t keep them from sleeping, either. Stimulants are used to balance the brain chemistry in someone suffering from ADHD, and a balanced brain usually gets more/better quality sleep.
Truthfully, though, it all boils down to just how “off” your brain chemistry is as to whether or not the caffeine has any effect on it in the first place.
I’m ADHD, myself, and a cup of coffee will wake me up first thing in the morning because the caffeine allows me to focus on the morning tasks a lot better than without, lets me push the morning brain fog aside and get to work on whatever it is I need to do. But that same cup of coffee wouldn’t prevent me from taking a nap an hour (or less) after drinking it.
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