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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As far as i know, an ADD/ADHD brain is lacking signal transmission from neuron to neuron like a normal brain does.
The stimulant will compensate for this a bit, and since hyperactivity is a lack of regulating activity, the boosted brain does this better and induces calmness and tiredness.

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