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by evanjrowley 169 days ago
>Stimulants reversed the behavioral and brain effects of sleeping less

Supporting this observation: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....

I've been looking for theories for why 10mg Adderall seems to give me a brief feeling of drowsiness ~30 minutes after taking it.

The state regulation theory (ยง3) in this article might suggest that the process of returning to baseline could feel like sleepiness https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10....

Which makes more sense if the sleep disorder explanation for ADHD means that the normal feeling of sleepiness is not properly functioning.