Post by adhders on Feb 17, 2013 15:27:35 GMT -5
People with ADHD seek novelty and stimulation. The former is a response to easy boredom. The latter is a response to the need to mobilize neurotransmitters that make one feel calm and good.
Medications that treat ADHD mobilize primarily Dopamine and Noradrenalin. Dopamine is the brain's primary feel good substance. Its release in the Nucleus Acumbens is intensely pleasurable.
Noradrenalin also helps one feel good and has major effects on hyperactivity. In combination one becomes less fidgety, restless and anxious and feels good, calm, happy or mellow.
Children with ADHD frequently bite their fingernails, have something in their mouth, fiddle with things. The most innervated parts of the body are the mouth, lips, tongue, fingers and genitalia. Hence adolescents and adults with ADHD often masturbate a lot. The stimulation is extraordinarily calming for them and climax release a flood of Dopamine in the pleasure center of the brain. Promiscuity, hyper-sexuality and "sex addiction" often ensue.