The Symbolic Condom: Why Depression and Anxiety Create Stories, but ADHD Doesn’t
One thing that I've noticed seems to unite almost all fearful-avoidants is a preoccupation with the search for meaning. When under stress this often manifests as ADHD-type symptoms: the system is desperately trying to determine where it ought to focus its attention and direct its resources.
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Heidi Priebe 🏃♀️ is in motionx.comAs for brooding, this is the special blessing and the bitter curse of ADHD. You have a vision. Maybe you’ve come up with a novel technology for making an unbeatable knife sharpener. Or maybe you think you have the plot to the perfect novel. Whatever your vision, you go at it like you never have before.
But then, what you’ve created…disappoints. It’s
Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey • ADHD 2.0
Intially created as a way to collect all of the things for my depression, anxiety, ADHD - and either I’ve been terrible at collecting things, or I am looking for the solution in a totally new and different area.
Can someone comment on whether ADHD medication leads to 'loss' of the unfiltered imagination that I have come to associate with my perpetually distracted self ?
A friend on ADHD meds told me that it feels like trading unbridled creativity for stability. He found it to be an essential drug for functioning, but I got a sense that it involved losing... See more
A friend on ADHD meds told me that it feels like trading unbridled creativity for stability. He found it to be an essential drug for functioning, but I got a sense that it involved losing... See more
Association between ADHD medication and depression: A 10-year follow-up | Hacker News
“If there is one takeaway in distilling down the complexity of the DMN and the TPN, it boils down to the fact that the toggle switches between them are off in those with ADHD.”
In other words, in most people the DMN does not slip so easily into the TPN; the gears mesh well and are not glitchy. But in people who have ADHD, the gears get stripped, so