OK, that makes three people diagnosed with ADD/ADHD on this site. (a pattern). I've got it too. I should do a survey on this...
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Quote by: Suburb No, it is caused by boredom. They diagnosed me with ADD in second grade. I never took a single pill. A year later, I was in a highly gifted school, my IQ is over 150, and I'm frankly more aware and better at multitasking than your average human. ADD is a result of boredom.
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I've got ADD too, and I know what your talking about, but I disagree with you. I've met plenty of smarter people react to boredom better then I. They don't roll their eyes and think about something else in class, they focus even if they don't like it.
ADD is really just an allergy to boredom. It has less correlation with intelligence (though many of the intelligent people I've met have ADD in some form.)
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Quote by: Chancellor Well, when they can actually do testing on live humans that show an actual imbalance of dopamine and actually show that imbalance causing the disorder, then I'll be convinced. |
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SPECT scans found people with ADHD to have reduced blood circulation,[18] and a significantly higher concentration of dopamine transporters in the striatum which is in charge of planning ahead.[19][20] A study by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in collaboration with Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York suggest that it is not the dopamine transporter levels that indicate ADHD, but the brain's ability to produce dopamine itself. The study was done by injecting 20 ADHD subjects and 25 control subjects with a radiotracer that attaches itself to dopamine transporters. The study found that it was not the transporter levels that indicated ADHD, but the dopamine itself. ADHD subjects showed lower levels of dopamine across the board. They speculated that since ADHD subjects had lower levels of dopamine to begin with, the number of transporters in the brain was not the telling factor. In support of this notion, plasma homovanillic acid, an index of dopamine levels, was found to be inversely related not only to childhood ADHD symptoms in adult psychiatric patients, but to "childhood learning problems" in healthy subjects as well.[21]
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Ya it's from wiki, but if you really care so much, I can post the citations.
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Now, either it's caused by a chemical imbalance or it's caused by a gene - make up your mind!
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................Even I know what's wrong with the above argument....
The gene causes the chemical imbalance.
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Quote by: Chancellor I have yet to see psychology "cure" even one person's "mental illness." |
I have seen it cure PTSD.
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Quote by: suburb Thats call the pleasure principle and there is no way in hell I'm letting you claim psychology came up with that!!! hahahaha |
Psychology isn't something that can come up with anything, it's a field of study. All I'm stating is what you learn day one in Psych 101.
While I'm not into the deeper stuff, I think there are certain concepts in Psych you can't completely pitch out. One is the average person learns 90% of something that is interesting to them and 10% when it isn't. The average number of times something needs to be repeated to become a habit is around 30.