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Untreated or late diagnosed ADHD people are ridiculously overrepresented in drug & alcohol recovery programs. It's honestly chilling and it prevents me from tak

Untreated or late diagnosed ADHD people are ridiculously overrepresented in drug & alcohol recovery programs. It's honestly chilling and it prevents me from taking this in the probably more lighthearted spirit that was intended.

com2kid 3y ago
Fun fact! Over 50 percent of people with untreated ADHD will have problems with substance abuse at some point in their life! Oh wait, that isn't fun at all. ADHD is real and untreated it can (and often does) destroy lives. (Also: People with untreated ADHD have 3x the gen-pop rate of car accidents!)
- nucleardog 3y ago
  Current thinking is ADHD is caused (at least in significant part) by a lack of dopamine or an insensitivity to dopamine. They’ve found links between genes that cause dopamine resistance and ADHD. Many current ADHD medications cause increased levels of dopamine. This is a leading theory on why they work. Wanna guess what a lot of other drugs, including alcohol, do in your brain? It’s been amazing since I got diagnosed relatively late in life exactly how many other things suddenly made so much more sense and clicked into place. And amazing how quickly decades old substance abuse habits started to taper off once my brain chemistry was less fucked.
- projektfu 3y ago
  Yep, and thankfully the FAA will allow you to fly with undiagnosed untreated ADHD but not with treated ADHD. Because the NTSB gets bored, I guess.
dubcee349 3y ago
People with ADHD tend to be impulsive. you know what drugs are great for? Impulsive people.
Blahah 3y ago
It wasn't meant to be lighthearted at all. It was just meant to be honest. I've been to the depths of the things, and I wish I knew how to help others not go there.
bloqs 3y ago
Adhd is a particular personality configuration, mostly being high in Big Five trait Openness and low in Conscientiousness. High openness is correlated with impulsivity

com2kid 3y ago

Fun fact! Over 50 percent of people with untreated ADHD will have problems with substance abuse at some point in their life! Oh wait, that isn't fun at all. ADHD is real and untreated it can (and often does) destroy lives. (Also: People with untreated ADHD have 3x the gen-pop rate of car accidents!)

nucleardog 3y ago
Current thinking is ADHD is caused (at least in significant part) by a lack of dopamine or an insensitivity to dopamine. They’ve found links between genes that cause dopamine resistance and ADHD. Many current ADHD medications cause increased levels of dopamine. This is a leading theory on why they work. Wanna guess what a lot of other drugs, including alcohol, do in your brain? It’s been amazing since I got diagnosed relatively late in life exactly how many other things suddenly made so much more sense and clicked into place. And amazing how quickly decades old substance abuse habits started to taper off once my brain chemistry was less fucked.
projektfu 3y ago
Yep, and thankfully the FAA will allow you to fly with undiagnosed untreated ADHD but not with treated ADHD. Because the NTSB gets bored, I guess.

dubcee349 3y ago

People with ADHD tend to be impulsive. you know what drugs are great for? Impulsive people.

Blahah 3y ago

It wasn't meant to be lighthearted at all. It was just meant to be honest. I've been to the depths of the things, and I wish I knew how to help others not go there.

bloqs 3y ago

Adhd is a particular personality configuration, mostly being high in Big Five trait Openness and low in Conscientiousness. High openness is correlated with impulsivity