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The newer ADHD meds are not stimulants and are not addictive. Maybe ADHD has "boomed" in """popularity""" because a disorder that used to be diagnosed as hyper
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y ago
The newer ADHD meds are not stimulants and are not addictive.
Maybe ADHD has "boomed" in """popularity""" because a disorder that used to be diagnosed as hyperactivity and a deficit of attention actually turned out to be a quantifiable problem with executive function which exists in a known part of the brain, can be quantifiably treated with medication and therapy, and if untreated results in very confusing problems with emotions and motivation for as long as you live.
It's not as if ADHD doesn't exist. I'm speaking off of what was apparently state of the art 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfCdBBqNXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSfCdBBqNXY
I'm hoping today, in a matter of hours, to get prescribed one of these new non-stim drugs, because the stuff described in that video very much matches my experience.
Maybe thinking that ADHD is made up has boomed in popularity because of the South Park and King of the Hill episodes that downplay it. Imagine learning medicine from cartoons.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoWhat are the non-stim drugs being prescribed for ADHD?
- juliangoldsmith 3y agoStrattera, an SNRI, is one.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoA big thing with ADHD is as society optimizes, there's less "unproductive" spaces for people to exist in. I think of my own experience. I can focus long periods of time on something interesting that solves a problem, but when most work is simply business logic and reinventing the same uninteresting wheel at a desk for 40hrs a week, I feel like a caged animal and cannot focus whatsoever. The behaviors associated with ADHD are quite literally anachronistic. The ability to take in a lot of stimuli and react on it would have been extremely useful during say, a hunter-gatherer time. Someone to try to figure out what those weird berries are useful for, fiddling with some sticks and ending up with a tool, etc. We're really not meant to sit around all day being "productive".
- nonameiguess 3y agoI try to tell my wife this all the time. She has ADHD, and possibly only that, but diagnosed with and treated for generalized anxiety and depression at various points. She likes to act like I'm some kind of mentally perfect person and I should breed with someone else because our children shouldn't inherit her traits. To the contrary, I think those traits need to stay in the human gene pool. I'm extremely well adapted to a predictable, boring, overwhelmingly safe environment, but there is no guarantee the human environment will remain this way. Calling ADHD behaviors anachronistic is probably basically correct, but I think it's important to remember this doesn't mean we'll never again need them. They were adaptive in the past and may again be adaptive in the future. The important thing for humanity overall is to have a wide variety of behavioral traits so we can collectively adapt as needed when circumstances change. We do not want everyone to be perfectly adapted to the exact present moment. That's how extinctions happen.
- Thiez 3y agoSo you would breed with her out of some enlightened eugenics reasons, then? No matter the potential personal cost to your offspring? How... noble?
- HeckFeck 3y agoI don't think there is any moral problem here. Attraction works in that way to promote variation.* *The least sexiest way of saying "opposites attract", but I am wearing my HN mask.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoWhat are you getting at with your leading questions? It would be clearer if you just came out and said it. I don't know why you jump to the extreme of "no matter the potential cost", they absolutely did not say that. They are talking about one specific trait, and think it is acceptable, not making some blanket statement. They aren't claiming trisomy or Huntingtons is acceptable. ADHD isn't a death sentence and some people benefit from it today.
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- polskibus 3y agoWhich adhd meds do you have in mind ?