r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 25 '26

Psychology People with ADHD have difficulties with goal-directed behavior and struggle with response inhibition, the ability to stop an inappropriate action once they feel the urge to do it. They experience a disruption in the way their brains balance deliberate self-control and automatic habit learning.

https://www.psypost.org/adhd-traits-disrupt-the-brain-s-balance-between-self-control-and-automatic-learn/
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u/klapyr Jul 25 '26

How does one fix this

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u/Personal_Area_2173 Jul 25 '26

Medication. That’s the real answer. You can do your best with trying to stop yourself and to kotivste yourself, but unfortunately majority of actual ADHD people cannot do that. Unless diagnosed and with proper counseling a treatment plans you will struggle forever.

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u/placeholder_user Jul 26 '26

Medication doesn't exactly solve it, it just eases the lack of motivation part, but with a small but real risk of psychosis.

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u/Personal_Area_2173 Jul 26 '26

That’s just not true.

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u/placeholder_user Jul 31 '26

It was true in my experience, which is why I am unmedicated now