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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ADD/ADHD is [believed to be] caused by a *reduction* in activity in the part of the brain that regulates attention and focus. The problem is not that the brain is *too* active, it’s that a particular region is not active enough.
Stimulants don’t calm down the ADD/ADHD brain, they increase activity in the brain, including the focus/attention region of the brain. This helps give that person the ability to control their own focus. So although their whole brain is more active they can reign it in and direct that activity towards their desired goal, instead of bouncing between different stimuli.
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