im confused as to why people with adhd have this and i have heard stories that my mother (who has adhd) has taken handfuls of methamphetamine salts and then just gone straight to sleep despite them being stimulants.
is this real and if so how do they work?
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The Brain of a person who has adhd is in constant need of stimulation that’s why it chooses to stimulate itself (by changing topics, changing focus, being active in some cases) stimulants do that for them and now they don’t need to self stimulate which makes them more calm and focused
Drugs effect different people differently.
Too dumbed down for you?
Put a rat in rat in a cage and give it no stimuli except drugs, and you can create a drug addicted rat.
Put a rat in a cage with lots of stimuli, including drugs, and you have the same rat who could take or leave the drugs.
Table sugar is 8x more addictive than cocaine; we have an obesity epidemic, but war on drugs.
A war on drugs cannot be “won”. It can cease, or it can continue on forever.
And if you want a vision of the future of the war on drugs, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
I don’t have an answer for the first question but nobody here has properly explained how ADHD works, so I will (using data from Dr. Russel Barkley)
Put simply, your brain has Dopamine, which bind to receptors. Your brain gives you dopamine as a reward for positive actions like eating. This makes you want to do that thing more.
Dopamine makes you feel good. It regulates movement, helps you remember things, helps you control impulses, and indirectly motivates you.
When your brain decides you’ve had enough dopamine, Inhibitors kick in and stop dopamine binding to receptors.
People with ADHD (like myself) have too many of these receptors, so the brain ends up blocking far too much dopamine resulting in not enough.
This is where the symptoms of ADHD appear. Without dopamine, the impatience, moving around alot and jumpiness are seen because dopamine isn’t there to help regulate it.
The attention side isnt because people with ADHD can’t pay attention, it’s because they have barely any dopamine to motivate them to pay attention.
This is also seen in Parkinsons, where patients lack dopamine too. That’s a big reason why you see videos of people smoking weed and their shakes easing .
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