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ADHD - The Anterior Cingulate Is the Gatekeeper of Your Emotions
All humans feel emotions. Our limbic system is the part of the brain where emotion comes from. The anterior cingulate is basically the gatekeeper of our emotions. It's the dam that keeps the floodgate of emotions at bay. As a human with ADHD, you feel normal emotion. You however, feel all those same normal emotions from the limbic system but your dam is nonexistent.