Darrian Peck argues ADHD is actually an attention overload, not a deficit. The brain struggles with neurotransmitter regulation through methylation and one-carbon metabolism, creating too many open windows of thought at once. He questions why amphetamines are the standard treatment for this.
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If you have ADD or you have adhd, I'll bet that no one has actually told you what it really is. So the neurotransmitters that create thought are actually neutralized through a process called methylation 1 carbon metabolism. And we actually break this thought down. So if you are creating thought at a faster rate than you break thought down, then this means you are opening windows faster than you are closing them. So attention deficit disorder is actually not an attention deficit at all. It's the opposite. It's an attention overload disorder. It's too many windows open at the same time. And so if too many windows are opening at the same time, shouldn't the answer be, well, how do we close some of these windows? But that's not what we do in modern medicine. We say, well, if the mind is racing, let's put an amphetamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind.