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ADD Medicine Side effects?
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Congratulations. Others don't have the same experience as you.
To say they are famous because of ADHD is crap logic, I can't even begin to explain the level of misguided thinking you are demonstrating.
Clearly you have your approach, medicine, psychiatry, and psychology have others for those that have more severity with their specific diagnosis.
The thing that I find hilarious about this thread is that anyone posting here during the work week must have ADD because we should probably be working right now...
ADD, like tatoos, facinates me. Without, you are in the minority anymore.
Also, the internet = ADD.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." — Henry David Thoreau
You crazy Henry! Lets give him a pill so the man conforms to the s*ript.
Also, the internet = ADD.
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." — Henry David Thoreau
You crazy Henry! Lets give him a pill so the man conforms to the s*ript.
I read once where USA has a much higher ADD rate then rest of the world. It is somewhat heiriditary and it is often associated with risk taking.
This article indicated that the type of person who would leave Europe in the 1700s or 1800s and move to a largely unkown sitaution in America had a high chance of being ADD.
Stay medicated my friend.
I don't know anything about the med you are on but talk to your Dr. about a time released medicaiton. I take Medidate CD. It is nice to only have to take it when you feel you are going to need it. I think I am lots more fun without it but it is nice when I have to help with detailed tasks, tests ect.
Anyone who says ADHD is a sham is wrong. But anyone who believes every kid who is on the drugs needs them is wrong too.
I've been out of school for 15 years, but at that time, ADHD (ADD then) was becoming trendy. Kid's grades going down? RITALIN. Kid looking out the window in class? RITALIN. Kid talking back to parents/teachers? RITALIN. Lets not encourage Johnny to study, or discipline him. RITALIN is easier.
It is those cases that give the bad reputation to those who actually need it.
I've been out of school for 15 years, but at that time, ADHD (ADD then) was becoming trendy. Kid's grades going down? RITALIN. Kid looking out the window in class? RITALIN. Kid talking back to parents/teachers? RITALIN. Lets not encourage Johnny to study, or discipline him. RITALIN is easier.
It is those cases that give the bad reputation to those who actually need it.
I am the exact same way.
Never been on meds, just tried to deal with it. I am sure I don't have symptoms that are nearly as severe as others.
I can get deep into a few subjects. I soak them up, and get a high off learning about these things. Other things, it just barely scratches the surface of my brain.
I took Focolon and Adderall. They work but they make you sweat like a waterfall and if you hove any pre-existing anxiety issues it amplifies them by like 900 percent. Also I experienced intense burnout at the end of the day. I have a feeling my experience is not typical though.
Jeez there's a disorder for everyone these days. When does "anxiety" start and just human nature begin? I don't doubt that I could be diagnosed with anxiety or OCD or et cetera. When I was a kid I would check my bookbag to see if my homework was there multiple times every night, even though I never moved it. I to this day check my pockets every 10 min or so to see if my phone and wallet are there. I have constant fear of forgetting something, but I think all those things are natural. Some person who wants to make people feel special invented these "disorders" as a cheap way for people to make excuses.
I used to occasionally take concerta when partying back in college. It had a horrid effect on me. I could stay up until 5AM and just POUND beers, but it gave me wild mood swings. For a period, I would love everyone. Hugging strangers and having really deep conversations with people I barely knew. An hour later I would be completely depressed, hungover, and waiting for death.
It's the worst drug I've ever taken, and that includes some illegal ones that I choose not to name.
I tried Adderrall a couple times too, and it wasn't nearly as awful on my state of mind as Concerta, although the hangover was bad.
The lesson: don't take this stuff unless you're absolutely sure you need it. Its basically legal meth. All my friends who had ADD and had prescriptions for the stuff got off it, after it totally wrecked them. They all developed bad smoking habits when they were on it, and would just either drink to complete excess or smoke a ton of weed in attempts to get to sleep, but it just had rebound effects that really messed them up.
I'm not a fan, even for people with ADD. There has to be better meds for that stuff.
It's the worst drug I've ever taken, and that includes some illegal ones that I choose not to name.
I tried Adderrall a couple times too, and it wasn't nearly as awful on my state of mind as Concerta, although the hangover was bad.
The lesson: don't take this stuff unless you're absolutely sure you need it. Its basically legal meth. All my friends who had ADD and had prescriptions for the stuff got off it, after it totally wrecked them. They all developed bad smoking habits when they were on it, and would just either drink to complete excess or smoke a ton of weed in attempts to get to sleep, but it just had rebound effects that really messed them up.
I'm not a fan, even for people with ADD. There has to be better meds for that stuff.
unless you were prescribed concerta or adderall, there's no need to qualify your drug use. it's all been illegal.
better let your Dean know about that.
better let your Dean know about that.
