Adult ADHD Tips – Stress Management and Addictive Behaviors
Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support
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The Connection Between Stress and Addiction
When you're under stress or feeling anxious, the fight or flight mechanism is triggered. Your cortisol levels also go up and it's unhealthy for you to sustain high levels of cortisol. Most of us don't even identify the stress in that moment. So on a daily basis, we're going through this because the way we're wired, we have less dopamine receptors. That's one of the hallmarks of ADHD. It's not a conscious behavior. But here's the insight. You can bring it to your conscious mind and start to recognize, oh, wait a minute, I'm feeling stressed right now.
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