Sublime

Karl Jaspers made empathy central to psychiatry, a revolutionary idea at the time.

In people with this subtype of ADD the distractibility that is part of the syndrome interferes with the process of apprehending pleasure, of perceiving order, and of sensing that life can be all right.

While most people with ADD are easily bored and seek diversion quickly, the adult with high-stim ADD particularly abhors boredom. He—and it is usually a he—may seek high stimulation through relatively safe avenues—creating tight deadlines to work under; regularly

serotonin, acetylcholine, GABA, and glutamate. 2.Exercise can improve levels of BDNF (brain derived neurotrophic factor)—a chemical involved in brain growth. 3.Exercise reduces stress. 4.Exercise enhances positive mood states and decreases negative mood states. 5.Exercise improves prefrontal cortex functioning.

deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other conditions are at the extreme spectrum end of abnormally low dopamine levels. In other words, is social media addiction a result of lower dopamine levels due to stress and the modern world we now live in? Excuses, procrastination, and brain fog are possible symptoms of deficient levels of dopamine, n

Max’s high IQ delayed the diagnosis of ADD. When a child is obviously bright and gets good grades, one often fails to consider ADD as a possibility. This is a mistake.

Most people experience this state of complete absorption in a task at some point. When a state of hyperfocus is referenced outside the context of ADHD—or schizophrenia and autism—it is typically called flow—a term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi of the University of Chicago (2008, 1–4).