What IF --- "UNMOTIVATED" Isn't What We Think ---Neuro-Diverse BURNOUT

Conjecture

• Neuro-Diverse Energy and Executive Functioning Challenges can lead to BURNOUT or even BREAKDOWN.
• It's often CONFUSING to the Society, Professionals, Families and Individuals.
• THIS IS A BIG PIECE OF THE PUZZLE --- WE'VE BEEN MISSING
  

Soa Chongsonyon Chongsin Uihak

The Relationships between Addiction to Highly Caffeinated Drinks, Burnout, and Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder.

 

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the addiction to highly caffeinated drinks among university students, and we investigated the relationships between smartphone addiction, depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD …

Val's Note:  This is HUGELY PROBLEMATIC.  

Some ADHDers and other Neuro-Diverse people are not just "addicted' to these caffeinated drinks because they like the taste --- those drinks are helping to MANAGE some extremely tricky energy and executive functioning developmental challenges.

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• CHALLENGES THAT THE SOCIETY AND MOST PROFESSIONALS AREN'T CLUED INTO
  
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• I would submit those DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES are also a BIG FACTOR in our ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS.
  

Further, another LEGAL SUBSTANCE is Tobacco --- now a lot fewer people are using this in 2022--- BUT I would submit those who are often are NEURO-DIVERSE.

You can see this even among some ATTORNEYS and DOCTORS---- in 2022 many have given that up BUT WHAT IS THE REPLACEMENT?

In the mid 20th Century -- the BIG ISSUE was HEART DISEASE --- it's still a big issue --- BUT PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS have far overtaken the concern for Heart Disease.

• I think the "POPULATION" of the 2 groups is very much the same --- Neuro-Diverse People who are struggling to manage DEVELOPMENTAL ENERGY AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES in a climate of IGNORANCE.  

See also:

Dyslexic Burnout - How to deal with it

International Journal of Autism Research & Practice

Defining autistic burnout through experts by lived experience: Grounded Delphi method investigating (2021)

We wanted to create a definition of autistic burnout that could be used by clinicians and the autism community. ...

In practice, it is important for clinicians to be aware that autistic burnout is different from depression. Psychological t …

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychaitry

ADHD, altered dopamine neurotransmission, and disrupted reinforcement processes: implications for smoking and nicotine dependence.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and impairing disorder affecting millions of children, adolescents, and adults. Individuals with ADHD smoke cigarettes at rates significantly higher than their non- …

Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna)

Assessment and treatment of substance use in adults with ADHD: a psychological approach. (2021)

Over half of young people and adults diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] also have substance use disorder [SUD]. ...This misses an opportunity to intervene much earlier, before drug use esca …