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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by skywhopper on Thursday September 19, 2024 @08:07AM (#41590931)
You clearly don’t know much about the topic. There’s a huge variety of medications for ADHD. Some are classed as stimulants, but in many people with ADHD, it turns out that many stimulants actually provide a calming effect.

If you take ADHD stimulant meds and get high, you probably don’t have ADHD.

Also, not sure what epilepsy has to do with anything here.

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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by viraptor on Thursday September 19, 2024 @08:21AM (#41591062)
> not sure what epilepsy has to do with anything here.

In general: High generic correlation and interesting drug interaction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10049646/ (but I'm not sure if that's what OP was thinking of)

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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by FollowingTheDao on Thursday September 19, 2024 @08:28AM (#41591119)
People with ADHD and in a low energy state. By taking stimulants we can say it brings them up to a "normal" state. If they too more of the drug it will surly over stimulate the patient.
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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by VoreLuka on Thursday September 19, 2024 @08:47AM (#41591294)
For me its the oposite, too much makes me sleepy. I actually slept for 24hours because of an ritalin overdose
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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by FollowingTheDao on Thursday September 19, 2024 @12:10PM (#41593342)
This is because it also releases serotonin, and the serotonin turns into melatonin, which makes you tired.
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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by VoreLuka on Friday September 20, 2024 @02:48AM (#41599473)
I mean doesnt that contradict what my parent said?
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Re:ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day by FollowingTheDao on Friday September 20, 2024 @07:18AM (#41600841)
No. Because it stimulates sleep or wakefulness, depending on a persons genetics.Most stimulants release all the catecholamines.
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