> You just go back to the absolutely disfunctional state you were in before when you stop taking them.
Your brain adapts by creating more dopamine transporters...meaning you need more dopamine for same effect. This happens in an effort to maintain homeostasis. There is no free dopamine unfortunately...what goes up must come down. The brain's homeostasis system is hard-wired.
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...
> but the normal of people with ADHD is different.
This is probably the biggest misunderstanding people have.
They are told that their brain doesn't produce as much dopamine as a normal brain, which is why they can take the meds and normal people cannot.
But this is not the case. Each brain produces the right amount for itself, and if you dope it with more, then it will counteract this, and you will build tolerance.
There is no evidence about the dopamine theory of ADHD. It's total conjecture with a couple of papers here and there. There are no biomarkers or imaging for diagnosing ADHD.
The end result is you are going to end up morphing people's brains to the point that they need to take the meds to attain their original state.
But whatever, no one seems to care, too much money to be made.
