High Risk Behavior??? | ADHD Information

Ummmm, I used to do this when I was younger...mostly before I had my daughter...then it turned more into impulsivity ....shopping...still have a big problem....

[QUOTE=bcgirl1978]I don't think I am necessarily looking for a rush - I think my impulsivity just gets the better of me and I don't think about consequences.[/QUOTE]

Exactly, you need it... whatever stimulates the brain, that is what you will do if you are low on Dopamin and Noradrenalin. Some people seek high risk... som other people, like me seek hard computer games, or 2 metric tons of Cola... or perhaps buying allot of stuff we can't afford... it's all about nok thinking on the consequences...

About the whole adrenaline thing...I can never seem to get mine pumping. I ride quads and go jeeping a lot and every time there doesn't seem to be a hill, jump or trail that I don't attempt and yet I don't get a rush. I do stupid stuff all the time like rock climbing without ropes, climbing trees, crossing the street before a car has actually stopped and anything that might give me a rush. I haven't been able to get that rush since I was probably in the first grade...ever since then it just diminished little by little. It kind of makes me feel dead. Especially when I was swimming. When I first started I was in the 3rd grade and when I raced I was able to get some adrenaline going but it slowly went away the longer I continued to enter in meets.Surfgirlie5, It sounds as if it doesn't stimulate you anymore. Perhaps you should find another stimuly....like RitalinI don't think I am necessarily looking for a rush - I think my impulsivity just gets the better of me and I don't think about consequences.

If I was looking for a rush all the time, I'd probably be into things like snowboarding or dirtbiking. That stuff doesn't interest me much, because for some reason I DO think about getting hurt. I associate these things with injury or death, but for some reason floating a half mile out from shore with nothing more than a little peice of foam when I can't swim doesn't make me think of death - until after the fact. Then I have a "holy crap why did I do that" moment.

I love amusement park rides - but I think that has to do with my shear love of motion, more so that seeking an adrenaline rush. Thinking about rides like that dragster roller coaster at Cedar Point makes my knees knock.

Been doing my whole life.

I have had quite a bit of high risk behavior.  Not just the rollarcoasters and bungee jumping, but I used to do alot of things that are high risk in a criminal way(I'm not proud of this) ie: shoplifting, B+E, Drugs(I've tried it all, but never Heroin) Drinking, sex without protection, and affairs to name a few.  I'm basically a very good person and I care about myself and my family, and people in general-I never could figure out why I would do such stupid and possibly hurtful things, but I felt like when in the situation I just couldn't help myself.

I think I'm starting to have more self control but I enjoy any high risk activity! When it's something I'm not supposed to do, or semi dangerous I love the rush I get.

Worst desicion I ever made was getting a sport bike a few years back beucase after only a few days of riding I was trying to do wheelies. That bike is totaled now!!!

So has anyone else lived a life with High Risk Behavior?
Seems I have been this way most of my life.   For me its been things like  high  risk  boating,  Shipwreck and cave diving.  The work  I do now can be thought of as high risk, wonder how I ended up with my job LOL 
I've done some pretty stupid things too - like climbing up or down really steep, treacherous hills (I would have freaked out if I saw anyone else doing it), speeding, skidding my car on ice on purpose (wheee!), "swimming" really far out from shore with nothing but one of those floating noodle things when I can't even swim..... I don't want to get into the dumb things I did as a kid - climbing trees and then getting stuck, only to climb the same tree again after being "rescued", seeing how fast I could pedal my bike down a steep hill, jumping off the neighbour's roof..... oy.

I think about the "what if's" later and I can't believe I did them in the first place.

Not so much these days (unless you count motorcycles), now I'm old and grey I've discovered self-preservation.

20 years ago though, yes - like many ADDers, I mixed with some scary people.

Mark -

I used to bike ride and roller blade quite a bit. Now that may seem normal...but.... I would put great effort into riding as fast as I could reguardless of the traffic situation. I would strive to get to intersections and get through yellow lights at the very tail end hoping that drivers making left and right hand turns would see me. Roller blading: I would do this during lunch times at work. I did lot's of studio work in Hollywood at the time so I could be seen skating up and down the Hollywood and Sunset Blvds during lunch. I basically skated the same way I would ride a bike. I used to piss-off lots of drivers. I was also a competitive Ice Dancer in my youth that has resulted in a bad knee so I stay away from all that now.

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High risk behavior...thy name is adhd

I am lucky to be alive and lucky to not have every std known to mankind...I was a prisoner of the moment most of my life...hey let's climb  that cliff!!  hey, I bet I can climb that tree higher than anyone, I can swing 6 monkee bars at a time... My parents asked the peditrican if there was something wrong with my bones  when I was 10 I'd had so many broken ones.  He said I was just accident prone...I know now..I suck at judging risk plus the fact I can be blissfully unaware of my surroundings...oops walked off a roof Ouch  hurts as bad  a doing a somersault to the ground  when you prove   you cant  do 6 monkee bars at once and both  types of falls break bones

As an adult I took drugs then stopped,  had a sports car drove like  a maniac then stopped,   had a period where I wasnt real careful about my sexual partners, sex while driving, in restaraunt bathrooms all part of that excitement seeking that was all about stimulation. I can see how hyperactivity   had so much to do with so many of the choice/decisons  i have made.  I was always seeking stimulation.   I do a lot better now  and have  for a while even before medication. Somewhere along the trip through life I realized I wasnt invulnerable.

That's so wierd. I've always avoided high risk activities and behavior like the plague. I think that may go with my hyperreactivity to stimuli, though. I cant handle too much stimulus. Adhd plus stimulus reactivity is a really strange combination!

High Risk is stimulating, thus High Risk equals ADHD.

Us ADHD people use our lives seeking activities that stimulate the hythalamus to produce those neurotransmitters we miss so dearly.

The cause is exactly the same, as to our addictive nature. We are born low on the Neurotransmitters: Dopamin and Noradrenalin.