Adult ADHD Treatment
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus - Huberman Lab
You can't overcome ADHD and you don't have to
Treating low dopamine¶
Stimulants¶
- Ritalin
- Adderall
Dr K: Treatment for adults with ADHD
Non stimulants¶
- Welbutrin
- Trntillix
Therapy¶
- healing the damaged caused by growing up with ADHD
- missing out on childhood
Meditation¶
any meditation helps
- visually focusing on a specific target
Diet¶
avoiding simple sugars and anything that worsens symptoms
Oligoantigentic diet - not eating anything that you have a mild allergy to - studies only done on children?
Phosphodyrsterene: over the counter 200mg a day
ginko balboa
Fidgeting¶
- fidget spinner
- shuttle activity from premotor circuits to elsewhere in the body
- pacing while public speaking
- bouncing knee behind podium
- doesn't move energy out of body
Behavioural changes¶
Wall of awful¶
- wallofawful.com
- barrier made of emotions between you and what you want to do
- built from past failures, [[ADHD Samskaras]]
- use motivational emotions
- play some music if you wanna workout
- only have 20 mins to cook dinner
- Atomic Habits
- remove friction from habits you want to do more of
- gym membership at gym that's closer
- remove friction from habits you want to do more of
- tracking how long things actually take
- define done
- we typically have an all or nothing thinking
- I'm gonna answer 5 emails
- define done
- allow time for transitions
- reflect on things how things went
- celebrate wins
- non-judgement so that you don't add more bricks to the wall of awful
TMS: transcranial magnetic stimulation + behavioural exercises
Last update:
2023-04-24