vulnerability tweet warning
I've spent the past few weeks doubting if I'm deserving of love and friendship. But tonight, my coworkers threw me a surprise birthday party. I really hope that I can consistently bring something worthwhile to the table of any relationships I have.
For those of you who dont know what ADHD is, its basically just naturally having a lower amount of dopamine (the hormone in control of pleasure and motivation) and seratonin (the hormone that controls memory, learning, happiness, sleep, sexual behavior, etc.) than normal people. This is why people with ADHD drink caffeine and dont get wired. Caffeine is a stimulant and increases dopamine, so for someone with low dopamine, it just brings us up to normal dopamine levels (like someone without ADHD). The same reason why people without ADHD when they take Adderall, they get wired and hyperfocused, whereas someone with ADHD, it just brings them up to normal dopamine & seratonin levels and makes them feel "normal". I feel like there is a lot of stigma about people with ADHD just being lazy, and depressed, when it's LITERALLY a hormonal imbalance we're born with. So if you feel like you're constantly unmotivated, have poor memory, trouble learning, or just are hard to please, you probably have ADHD.
@Kwoopie Before I left, I would hear way too many stories directly from strangers about how uncertain their futures were because of what's happening there