>>13768950It really is a more accurate way of viewing it, but I don't agree with not prescribing stimulants. If it improve symptoms it doesn't matter what the actual disorder is called.
ADHD always gets schtick over being overdiagnosed and while that may be partially true, there's really just an absolute shit ton of things that can lead to ADHD, it's less a lack of dopamine/norepinephrine and moreso an abnormality of their pathways, with the very nature of a pathway meaning it is connected through some other means to every other pathway in the body, it's very easy for such to get thrown off. It's why autoimmune and connective tissue disorders are actually quite associated with ADHD since they usually stem from dopamine abnormalities in the autoimmune system.
The alpha 2 receptors are a great illustrator of this, alpha 2 agonists are typically used to lower blood pressure in people, but in fact they actually are effective in treating some symptoms of ADHD since such people have abnormalities in alpha 2 function.
The crazy thing about that is almost every single common psychiatric disorder has actually been found to be associated with abnormalities in alpha 2 receptors, the only disorder I've found not to have evidence of such is bipolar, all the rest; anxiety, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia have been found to have abnormalities in such function, even POTS which isn't a psychiatric disorder has also been found to have abnormal alpha 2 function. Many of these alpha 2 abnormalities are actually quite similar to those observed in ADHD, schizophrenia is the only disorder in which abnormalities to said receptors are opposite in many ways to those in ADHD.
The fact of the matter is that there is a huge variety of differing factors which can all cause ADHD or at least all the symptoms of it. It's why some people sleep like a baby on stims and some are kept up all night.
