Not everyone with ADHD needs medication. The three subtypes respond differently to drugs, and what works for one person causes sluggishness or crashes in another. Psychiatry is trial and error because brain chemistry varies.
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So does everyone who's been diagnosed with ADHD need to be on medication? No. Okay. So, so it's interesting. There, there's different types of ADHD. So you have the inattentive and the hyperactive types. Okay. Or you have the, you know, the, the, the combined. Medication works for some of that, but not all of that. Everyone's brain chemistry is very different. And that's the reason, like, psychiatry is not an exact science. When dealing with ADHD or depression or anxiety or anything, a medication that works amazing for one person may not work at all for another. Also, how does it make you feel? Is it making you feel sluggish? Is it making you feel amped up? Are you experiencing a crash in the middle of the day after taking it? Yeah. So medication isn't right for everybody.