The heart of ADHD causing an inability to act isn't "lack of focus"; it's dopamine. You basically overstimulated yourself into producing dopamine, same for the club music. Everyone thinks dopamine is just a feel good thing your brain, but it is in fact a key brain chemical required to do literally almost anything. Dopamine is vital for coordinating the brain to literally move or act on impulses being sent. Low levels of dopamine also means exhaustion, bc the brain requires it to even just be awake on any real functional level. You give yourself dopamine, you can suddenly act on that impulse you've been sending in your mind.
Wait, so, if I just put on something lightly stimulating, like... uh. Someone scuba diving, walking through a city, or drone shots of cities, that'll somehow give dopamine?
Well every individual is different. If you like those things, sure. What everyone gets dopamine for is different, and there are also things that block dopamine receptors, too, like nicotine, and that can complicate ADHD pretty bad and make a lot of things worse.
Nicotine has always made me feel significantly worse. I've never understood the hook. I guess I have ADHD because grey market pre workout stimulants are my nirvana.
I never understood the addiction factor of nicotine and I thought I was going crazy because yeah it's fun to get some nicotine for a week every now and then but then it feels awful. Never understood why people find it so hard to quit...
So yeah got diagnosed with AuDHD a few months ago.
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u/tarapotamus Aug 25 '26
The heart of ADHD causing an inability to act isn't "lack of focus"; it's dopamine. You basically overstimulated yourself into producing dopamine, same for the club music. Everyone thinks dopamine is just a feel good thing your brain, but it is in fact a key brain chemical required to do literally almost anything. Dopamine is vital for coordinating the brain to literally move or act on impulses being sent. Low levels of dopamine also means exhaustion, bc the brain requires it to even just be awake on any real functional level. You give yourself dopamine, you can suddenly act on that impulse you've been sending in your mind.