Does ADHD Make Us Selfish?
It’s important to know that ADHD brains don’t have as much norepinephrine or dopamine as non ADHD brains because ADHD brains are lacking in a protein called dopamine transporters, and because dopamine is a building block for norepinephrine, our brain doesn’t have what it needs to build more of it.
Dopamine is a hormone and neurotransmitter that makes us feel good. It’s actively involved with the reward system in our brain (otherwise known as the nucleus accumbens). And therefore if our ADHD causes us to have less of it, we are going to seek out things that help our brain release it. That means we can be more impulsive, take risks, and (you guessed it) get bored really easily. Lower levels of dopamine can also mean that we struggle with depressive symptoms, since one of the key symptoms of depression is lack of enjoyment in all activities.
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