Dr. Micaela

So I'm not going to dive a ton into the phone addiction piece, but I am going to do two quick, quick

Um, things about this post number one is, um, because this is the easier low hanging fruit and it came last I medicated with dexamphetamine, but I don't take it every day.

Only when I study.

Okay.

Remember at the very beginning, or I don't know, maybe you weren't here then, I talked about how the deficits associated with ADHD range in a pretty broad constellation of symptoms, okay?

So yes, you would benefit from meds to study because meds help you focus, help you maintain sustained attention, sustained effort, right?

They help you filter so that you can actually think about one thing instead of all the cool things that are happening in your environment.

and the itchy tag on the back of your neck or whatever.

Meds help with all the things that I said.

Okay.

So impulse control, which it sounds like anybody who's having a hard time regulating their urges is having impulse control problems.

Meds help with that.

Okay.

Emotion regulation.

So I think the scrolling for eight hours when I'm anxious is

Okay.

So meds, ADHD meds help regulate emotions because they strengthen the activity that's able to happen in a frontal lobe when those meds are active in a brain.

And so if you're scrolling or if you're doing things that are not helpful while you are anxious or sad or feeling overwhelmed or stressed, ADHD medication, if you have ADHD can absolutely help you regulate that better.

When I work with young people, as soon as people get a driver's license, we recommend that people take their ADHD medication every single day if they expect to be driving behind the wheel of the car that day.

People diagnosed with ADHD have significantly