Eli5: Why is the medical treatment for people with ADHD/ADD often a stimulant?

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So, being a young adult with a suspicion of having some sort of the aforementioned, I’ve read that the treatment involves medicine of the stimulant sort.

Wouldn’t that make the underlying anxiety and restlessness worse? Or is it some sort of “shove” to artificial motivation, like making an old engine start up? Thanks in advance.

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ADHD is a deficiency of norepinephrine and dopamine, or it’s ability to be used correctly by the brain. By giving someone with ADHD a stimulant, it makes up for the deficiency. Norepinephrine stimulates the brain. ADHD is a disease of an understimulated brain.

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