AD/HD and Me

ADHD Things…

Hey bloggers,

haven’t updated in quite a while…..and it’s not because of ADHD tendencies…

Okay, fine maybe it is because of ADHD tendencies. 

I sort of forgot that I even created this blog and haven’t come back in about 2 months. But I’m here to say THANKS! For being reverent followers. I love you guys.

Anyways, 

Today I was thinking how easy it is for me to distinguish other people with ADHD even if they never told me they have it. 

For many months I’ve suspected that one of my teachers has ADHD. 

He’s always arriving to school several minutes after the bell rings, leaving his class to wait out in the cold for a while.

He always starts class 20 minutes late, and when he does start us up, we end up talking about a million irrelevent things. 

He’s over talkative.

He’s overly distracted.

He’s wired.

I just knew that this guy had ADHD. And what do you know??

It’s recently been shared that HE DOES!

I know, I know…you’re probably sitting there reading this like “No shit, Sherlock. A genius could’ve told you that.”

But I just think it’s funny how people with ADHD can sense other people with ADHD and equally love them but hate them all the same. It’s hard trying to be friends with someone who is exactly like you. In a way, it puts you in check and helps your realize how annoying you really are. 

Okay, well. That’s all I wanted to rant and rave about.

Hope you all are enjoying the weekend and have a great following week.

Enjoy your spring break to all on it and I wish you calmness.

Love,

theadhdbrain.

An Interest Deficit

The JAMA study said that, compared with a group of healthy subjects, brain scans of 53 adults with ADHD revealed a flaw in the way they process dopamine, which among other things, alerts people to new information and helps them anticipate pleasure and rewards. Swanson speculated that people with ADHD may even have a net deficit of dopamine.

The findings offer support for a long-held theory about why people with ADHD tend to be so easily distracted and bored — so hard to teach in school, so prone to end up in high-stimulus jobs such as in sales or the media, and so susceptible to gambling and drug abuse. According to the theory, the trouble is a lack of motivation as well as a deficit of attention: People with the disorder can’t generate the same degree of enthusiasm as other people for activities they don’t automatically find appealing.

“Parents always wonder why their children with ADHD can skateboard for hours and practice the same thing over and over but can’t stay on task in school,” said Swanson, who said he and fellow researchers have taken to calling the syndrome “an interest deficit.”

The project was led by Nora Volkow, a research psychiatrist who is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, together with scientists affiliated with institutions including the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Mount Sinai Medical Center. It took eight years to complete, mostly owing to the difficulty of finding people with diagnosed ADHD who had never taken medication or recreational drugs, which might have subtly changed their brains, and had no history of other serious psychiatric illness. Children weren’t involved because of regulations against subjecting minors to unnecessary radiation.

Volkow’s team collected detailed images of participants’ brains with positron emission tomography, or PET, scans after injecting them with a radioactive chemical that binds to dopamine receptors and transporters, which take up and recycle dopamine as it moves between neurons. The imaging showed that, in people with ADHD, the receptors and transporters are significantly less abundant in mid-brain structures composing the so-called reward pathway, which is involved in associating stimuli with pleasurable expectations. [Source]

Submitted by Hopeless Tetris 

I feel like not that many people know how the disorder (and therefore their medication) work, that very few have actually had it explained to them. Also, this is for everyone who has been told that the disorder doesn’t exist; You can see a difference between a ‘normal brain’ and an ‘ADHD brain’ when doing brain scans. How’s that for proof?