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In a similar boat and I wonder the same myself. My current thoughts are that I've had mild executive function disorder for most of my life, and self-medicating
by flqn 5y ago
In a similar boat and I wonder the same myself. My current thoughts are that I've had mild executive function disorder for most of my life, and self-medicating has helped in the short term but perhaps caused longer-term effects due to building a dependency on it.
- 1_player 5y agoYes, one necessary requirement for the diagnosis of ADHD is for it to be present since young age. There is no adult-onset ADHD, but there are plenty of factors that can cause ADHD-like symptoms in adults. Perhaps heavy marijuana consumption is one of them, and that same substance is used by people with actual ADHD to self-medicate (getting high -> dopamine increase)