Hi Stew, ADHD impacts the brain in terms of it's structure, function, and chemistry- none of which are impacted by consuming energy drinks. The rise of ADHD is due to more to do with people's awareness and recognition of the condition. Yours, A Psychotherapist who is also a specialist ADHD coach
Opposing this stuff is important. Thank you Emily. It starts with this nonsensical gibberish made up by some random blokes online and then a few years later one of 'em becomes an advisor to the health secretary. Earlier we shut them down the better.
What does he think ADHD meds do? Lmao
Was going to chime in, but then realized he’s already getting a beating in the comments below. Lol. Medications prescribed for ADHD are usually from the class of drugs known as “stimulants”, which, incidentally includes caffeine. SMDH.
In my experience, the consumption of energy drinks, caffeine, etc, has a HUGE effect on those with ADHD symptoms. I have given up all caffeine, and my concentration has improved significantly. Please don't use an appeal to authority, as our experience differs.
yeah caffeine has a noticable impact on adhd symptoms: it lessens them. and it some people, it straightup puts them to sleep. what it doesn't do is CAUSE adhd
also lol, congrats on literally mansplaining adhd to an expert.
Appeal to authority again. Many claim to be an expert. If they can make a compelling argument, then they can support that claim. If someone says 'you're wrong because I'm an expert' - it's a logical fallacy.
congrats on mansplaining again. people like you are the reason antivaxx and other medical woo is on the rise.
(also other science anti-expertise, like climate denial and chemtrail bullshit)
"ai explorer" lmao
going on about logical fallacies, appeals to authority and experts whilst eulogising the modern tool of anti-intellectualism is a good bit
you know, that actually explains a lot. what do we wanna bet he asked an LLM to sum up some studies for him 🤣
Nope. I'm going to let this one ride. If I'm wrong, then I hope people at least check to see why I'm wrong.
there i no "if". you are wrong. we have now provided you with a long list of research articles and summaries for you to read about how you are wrong. go do that. and do NOT ask the LLM to summarize for you.
no. you're talking shite the onus to prove your point is on you not the rest of us telling you you're talking shite
Oh you're an AI explorer? I hope you get Captain Cook-ed
It's great that you found something which personally improved your ADHD symptoms, but this is effectively a sample size of 1, without systematic data collection or any control group.
To be able to make judgements about either the causes of or treatments for conditions, medical science draws on the largest possible body of evidence, weighted for its quality. And there is little to none of that which suggests that caffeine consumption either causes or worsens ADHD symptoms.
That isn't to say that it can't affect them in individual cases (such as yours) but on average there's not enough evidence to recommend reducing caffeine intake as a treatment.
please don’t use your manecdote as a sneaky little way to undermine a woman’s expertise
Mansplaining is it?
It's not an appeal to authority. Online debate bros learn what the terms you are using actually mean challenge.
I have ADHD and long before I ever knew I had it I cut right down on caffeine (2 cups of tea in the morning and nothing more) for gastro reasons. Over that time my ADHD symptoms actually worsened due - I suspect - to other factors not related to caffeine.
Embarrassing lmao
You’re really stewing in your own crapulence today.
In my experience energy drinks are useful in moving goalposts
What experience?
Caffeine can impact ADHD symptoms, but what you said in your previous post was a general sweeping statement stating that energy drinks are one of the causes of the rise of in ADHD- which is simply untrue.
Happy to demonstrate how this, first hand, isn’t true Stew.
My which I mean I’ll chug something caffeinated and concentrate on booting your head around.
That's not how ADHD *or* an appeal to authority works. Tell me, do you aim to be this wrong in all your endeavours or are you giving us a special demonstration in incompetence?
So how does ADHD work? If I'm wrong how am I wrong. You're already wrong about how appeal to authority works.
It's not caused by energy drinks. Please provide evidence to the contrary without moving the goalposts as you have in other responses.
He's not wrong about that and you're a fool. You don't know what "appeal to authority" means as a concept. Emily wasn't appealing to authority, she was demonstrating that she is more knowledgeable than you are. Your boorish ignorance is not as valid as her professional expertise.
I'm not going to go into critical thinking here - you can go and read up on what appeal to authority means. Being a professional does not mean your arugment is instantly correct - it is more likely to be correct if argued well.
Yeah if you got into critical thinking here you might realise you were wrong but also being a dick about it
stew have you ever considered making less of a penis out of yourself in public
I know what it means. You demonstrably don't, as you've got it wrong about half a dozen times in this thread already. You're affecting knowledge where you have none, and you're misusing this concept as a shield against people pointing out that you know nothing about this subject
Read this, and then read it again to make sure you've understood it, and then think about your behaviour. (Now this IS an appeal to authority) www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Appeal to authority means that an argument is based upon who is making the argument, not what is being said. So when someone says "A Psychotherapist who is also a specialist ADHD coach", that is an appeal to authority. In some cases it's useful, but it doesn't mean the argument is true automatically
God you’re having a right ‘mare today Stew my son, are you okay? How have you not deleted your account?
No, it isn't. An appeal to authority is only a logical fallacy if the authority cited (usually another person) is either not an authority in the subject or is not making a statement based in their knowledge of the subject. Someone expressing their view *based on their expertise* is not fallacious.
In a short form like Bluesky you can hardly expect a response to cite all the relevant work to prove that an expert in a subject is likely to have a better understanding of their subject than a non-expert.
No, it does not mean they are *automatically* correct, but it doesn't make their statement fallacious, and quite frankly, to claim it does is weak deflection at best and (in the context of this conversation) comes across like mansplaining. Take the L, my dude.
Is there anything you DO understand?
looking like a harkonnen luke akehurst
"In you experience" do you regularly disagre with Health care profesonals who are Psychotherapist's and specialist ADHD coaches? your talking piss here mate listen to when the actual profesional say not what you've just come up with in your head
Whoa never seen Expert Woman vs Know Nothing Man before!
u can stop posting any time
Facts don’t care about your experiences pal
our experience is obviously not yours, we aren't all conspiracy theorists.
Do you think all policy decisions should be based on C18th style rationalism? Is believing in the germ theory of disease "an appeal to authority"?
I never ever used caffeine in my early life when I was already ADHD, UX DESIGNER STEW how do you.FUCKING explain that This is the dumbest flat earth theory billshit i have ever heard YOU DO REALIZE ADHD IS TREATED WITH STIMULANTS DO YOU STEW
UX DESIGNER STEW
You're mistaking symptoms of something which can also be symptoms of ADHD as *only* being symptoms of ADHD, and therefore assumed (wrongly) that anything that changes those symptoms must be affecting ADHD. It's not.
Uhm actually, having knowledge and experience in the field under discussion is a logical fallacy actually. Checkmate ipso facto quod erat demonstrandum vesuvius est eruptus.
You don't understand what "appeal to authority" means either
Ironically, he’s used a form of Ad Hominem though. If he wants to pull the logical fallacy card.
Considering stimulants impact ADHD brains differently than neurotypical brains, it shouldnt come as a surprise that people with ADHD would rely on energy drinks more often than the average nt person