It blows my mind how productive I’m able to be, being properly medicated after a diagnosis. I don’t understand why I cannot do these simple tasks normally. Why does adderall make me “go” and actually accomplish tasks?
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As a person with ADHD, you are constantly seeking gratification, you are constantly seeking something to be “stimulating”. You read a page of a book and after the page you realize you only mechanically read it. You are more prone to taking risks and being impulsive because maybe that will stimulate your poor dopamine deprived brain.
You get a prescription for a stimulant and take it and suddenly, you’re not actively seeking this gratification from everything, all the time. Simple tasks that may have been difficult for you to see through to completion now are able to hold your attention.
That’s one part of it, severely simplified.
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