If caffeinated drinks like coffee are meant to give you boosts of energy then why is it recommended for kids with ADHD to calm them down?
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Imagine the brain like an office. There are lots of people doing the day to day tasks and some managers to make sure that the employees are working on the proper projects and accounts.
In the brain of someone with ADHD, those managers are less effective because they don’t have enough energy to fully function. The workers bounce around between lots of different tasks and don’t see any one task to completion. Drinking coffee(or taking Adderall/Vyvanse) gives more energy to those managers, enabling them to wrangle the workers beneath them and get them back to task.
This is also why ADHD people are often able to focus on things like video games but not on homework or chores. The adrenaline rush from playing games causes those middle managers to perk up and enable focus.
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