>>62307747As someone who's experienced ADHD paralysis and has severe social anxiety, the fact that she's communicating less and less is a sign of guilt. It's hard to confront people when you think they're going to point their fingers at you, and the less she streams the more she'll think the next person is going to snap at her. It's a downward spiral. Guilt increases anxiety. Anxiety decreases dopamine. Less dopamine increases brain fog. Brain fog makes it hard to overcome the anxiety. You get stuck in a loop of fighting your own thoughts while appearing to be doing nothing on the outside. In this state, people with ADHD tend to resort to addictions. Before medication, I would browse imageboards to try to "destress,"
, but I'd end up just browsing all day and accomplishing nothing. Most people would probably say "just do it lol," but the brain fog makes it hard to think straight and hard to make rational decisions. In this state, the reptile brain is saying "stress bad, avoid stress" and there's not enough dopamine in the brain to override it.
