Yaknow the first thing i realised about ADHD medication?
The feeling I assumed was anxiety my whole life was gone. The uneasy feeling of dread or that I was forgetting something of terminal importance. The way stuff bounced around in my head and made me ruminate on unnecessary things. I just never had a word for it before now.
This whole time I've been in SNRIs that are supposed to help with the same things, but never quite did enough.
I'm only 2 weeks in and it isnt like taking the limitless pill or anything but even just that is a relief rn 🥹
SchillMenaker [he/him] - 1.1yr
Those first few weeks are like being given wings. Then your brain gets used to the meds and tries to go back to being the lazy little shithead that it's always been.
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Aradino [they/them, comrade/them] - 1.1yr
Half the struggle of having ADHD and being medicated is suppressing the urge to just play cookie clicker all day every day
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lamassu - 1.1yr
I am suppressing the urge to learn about cookie clicker. Whatever it is, keep it away! 😬🤣
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aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.1yr
me when someone asks me for help at work and they get a 15 paragraph response coz i cant stop typing
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FishLake @lemmygrad.ml - 1.1yr
It’s kind of like spending a few decades with shackles around your legs and finally getting them taken off. Problem is you now have to learn to walk. And you’re much past the age where people will show you how.
ADHD meds are great, but you have to exercise your executive functioning in order to get the full benefit. It sucks.
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SchillMenaker [he/him] - 1.1yr
Yeah, I tell people that medication alone won't fix your bad unproductive habits but it definitely can make you way better and more focused at those bad habits.
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Enjoyer_of_Games [comrade/them, he/him] - 1.1yr
The next realization is that the meds are not meant to allow you to hyperfocus 100% of the time but to moderate your attention to a steady baseline somewhere between hyperfocus and dead to the world.
My psychiatrist recommended I take about 5 days off every month, to kind of reset the brain's sensibility to the pharmaceutical, and to have the same effect as at the beginning. I'm on the last day of my very first break, so if it works I'll let y'all know.
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SchillMenaker [he/him] - 1.1yr
That advice is common but outdated. Skipping days can make a psychological difference because the contrast between medicated and unmedicated is so stark but you don't actually restore pharmacological sensitivity in a week or two.
You never get that first superhero feeling back because you can't go from being non-functional to functional for the first time in your life again. Being medicated starts to feel normal (which is good) and being unmedicated starts to feel really horrible (which it is but you didn't have context for how bad it was before). For me I skip doses solely to build up a back stock for when there is inevitably a shortage or prescription delay.
A lot of people think that the meds aren't helping after a while because of that first incredible phase where you feel like you can do anything. That's not what they're supposed to do for you. They're supposed to make it possible for you to control what you focus on. The actual work of completely rewiring your brain is intensive and exhausting and realistically can only go so far. Somehow that doesn't get properly communicated to people who are recently diagnosed.
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aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.1yr
My psych didnt really explain that well either, BUT I've got a few good folks who warned me that the first doses would make me feel like you've actually taken the limitless pill.
They sorta did, too, but at least knowing it was meant to come back down eventually helped me adapt. Without that knowledge I might have tried chasing the initial feeling or gotten disappointed.
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Assian_Candor [comrade/them] - 1.1yr
Yeah same, for me it was like fitting in the molecule I was missing my whole life. Transformative
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robot_dog_with_gun [they/them] - 1.1yr
huh i got a horrible anxiety spike. glad it's going good for someone
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aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.1yr
Oh no! I have seen that some people have a shit time. Feels like I lucked out honestly.
Did you try any different meds?
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robot_dog_with_gun [they/them] - 1.1yr
uh i had one stimulant that helped a little but not enough, and one that fucked me up so much i'll never take another amphetamine
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peeonyou [he/him] - 1.1yr
yeah.. someone at work gave me one of her pills and suddenly my mind went quiet and i could focus.. it was a stunning moment for me. I eventually got a dr to rx me adderall and I took it for a couple years until I lost my job and couldn't afford either the dr or the medication anymore
now i can't find a dr who will prescribe it again
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AcidLeaves [they/them, he/him] - 1.1yr
Try Wellbutrin, much easier to get prescribed
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peeonyou [he/him] - 1.1yr
I've been prescribed Wellbutrin several times in the past and I don't see the parallel to Adderall
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AcidLeaves [they/them, he/him] - 1.1yr
it's definitely not similar but it is a common offlabel for adhd. sorry that it doesn't seem to help with yours :(
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peeonyou [he/him] - 1.1yr
that's okay, thanks for the suggestion anyhow
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SchillMenaker [he/him] - 1.1yr
From some other people I know, general practitioners are more likely to prescribe Vyvanse or Ritalin than Adderall because they're much less easily/commonly abused, whereas psychs with a diagnosed patient prefer Adderall because it's just better.
Vyvanse is pretty much the same active ingredient as Adderall but designed (in multiple ways that are more complicated than anyone cares to know) to be way less possible to abuse. Vyvanse doesn't have a generic so it's a little pricey.
Ritalin is a different simulant than Adderall that has a shorter half life and is less commonly abused for a couple of reasons.
You might have better luck with getting a prescription for one of those two if your doctor isn't willing to give you the good stuff.
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propter_hog [any, any] - 1.1yr
What med?
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aanes_appreciator [he/him, comrade/them] - 1.1yr
Elvanse. I think it might be called Vyvanse in Murica.
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propter_hog [any, any] - 1.1yr
Nice to know, I've been wanting to get back on that one. I'm detoxing from antidepressants at the moment, and plan to start back ADHD meds soonish.
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quickenparalysespunk @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 1.1yr
what's "yaknow"?
I've never seen a real yak (in person) neither now nor any other time
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Assian_Candor [comrade/them] - 1.1yr
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ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] - 1.1yr
I was saying Yak Now
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Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided] - 1.1yr
smells like yaknow in here
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Mindfury [he/him] - 1.1yr
who's steve jobs?
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Mindfury [he/him] - 1.1yr
oh look, it's a post about me
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Mindfury [he/him] - 1.1yr
pristiq and rits gang wya?
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Barabas - 1.1yr
Taking the limitless pill that turns off 10% of my brain so I can focus on doing my work reports.
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Petter1 @lemm.ee - 1.1yr
For me it was first really awesome, I had suddenly way more time (I don’t feel time normally straight and sometimes I kinda freezed in place thinking stuff without really realising), after about two weeks, I realised what tasks and actions I always wanted or had to do but neglected as they faded away in my neurodivergence brain, they don’t do that, while I am on medication. But that let to a an overload and I had burn out symptoms for two weeks. Since yesterday, I feel awesome after a break of medication in the weekend (I suppose my sender neurons where too empty from a MD trip and because of medication the refill process of the botebstoffe was too slow.. who knows, but in the end, I think, it had a positive after effect after all.
aanes_appreciator in neurodiverse
Yaknow the first thing i realised about ADHD medication?
The feeling I assumed was anxiety my whole life was gone. The uneasy feeling of dread or that I was forgetting something of terminal importance. The way stuff bounced around in my head and made me ruminate on unnecessary things. I just never had a word for it before now.
This whole time I've been in SNRIs that are supposed to help with the same things, but never quite did enough.
I'm only 2 weeks in and it isnt like taking the limitless pill or anything but even just that is a relief rn 🥹
Those first few weeks are like being given wings. Then your brain gets used to the meds and tries to go back to being the lazy little shithead that it's always been.
Half the struggle of having ADHD and being medicated is suppressing the urge to just play cookie clicker all day every day
I am suppressing the urge to learn about cookie clicker. Whatever it is, keep it away! 😬🤣
me when someone asks me for help at work and they get a 15 paragraph response coz i cant stop typing
It’s kind of like spending a few decades with shackles around your legs and finally getting them taken off. Problem is you now have to learn to walk. And you’re much past the age where people will show you how.
ADHD meds are great, but you have to exercise your executive functioning in order to get the full benefit. It sucks.
Yeah, I tell people that medication alone won't fix your bad unproductive habits but it definitely can make you way better and more focused at those bad habits.
The next realization is that the meds are not meant to allow you to hyperfocus 100% of the time but to moderate your attention to a steady baseline somewhere between hyperfocus and dead to the world.
My psychiatrist recommended I take about 5 days off every month, to kind of reset the brain's sensibility to the pharmaceutical, and to have the same effect as at the beginning. I'm on the last day of my very first break, so if it works I'll let y'all know.
That advice is common but outdated. Skipping days can make a psychological difference because the contrast between medicated and unmedicated is so stark but you don't actually restore pharmacological sensitivity in a week or two.
You never get that first superhero feeling back because you can't go from being non-functional to functional for the first time in your life again. Being medicated starts to feel normal (which is good) and being unmedicated starts to feel really horrible (which it is but you didn't have context for how bad it was before). For me I skip doses solely to build up a back stock for when there is inevitably a shortage or prescription delay.
A lot of people think that the meds aren't helping after a while because of that first incredible phase where you feel like you can do anything. That's not what they're supposed to do for you. They're supposed to make it possible for you to control what you focus on. The actual work of completely rewiring your brain is intensive and exhausting and realistically can only go so far. Somehow that doesn't get properly communicated to people who are recently diagnosed.
My psych didnt really explain that well either, BUT I've got a few good folks who warned me that the first doses would make me feel like you've actually taken the limitless pill.
They sorta did, too, but at least knowing it was meant to come back down eventually helped me adapt. Without that knowledge I might have tried chasing the initial feeling or gotten disappointed.
Yeah same, for me it was like fitting in the molecule I was missing my whole life. Transformative
huh i got a horrible anxiety spike. glad it's going good for someone
Oh no! I have seen that some people have a shit time. Feels like I lucked out honestly.
Did you try any different meds?
uh i had one stimulant that helped a little but not enough, and one that fucked me up so much i'll never take another amphetamine
yeah.. someone at work gave me one of her pills and suddenly my mind went quiet and i could focus.. it was a stunning moment for me. I eventually got a dr to rx me adderall and I took it for a couple years until I lost my job and couldn't afford either the dr or the medication anymore
now i can't find a dr who will prescribe it again
Try Wellbutrin, much easier to get prescribed
I've been prescribed Wellbutrin several times in the past and I don't see the parallel to Adderall
it's definitely not similar but it is a common offlabel for adhd. sorry that it doesn't seem to help with yours :(
that's okay, thanks for the suggestion anyhow
From some other people I know, general practitioners are more likely to prescribe Vyvanse or Ritalin than Adderall because they're much less easily/commonly abused, whereas psychs with a diagnosed patient prefer Adderall because it's just better.
Vyvanse is pretty much the same active ingredient as Adderall but designed (in multiple ways that are more complicated than anyone cares to know) to be way less possible to abuse. Vyvanse doesn't have a generic so it's a little pricey.
Ritalin is a different simulant than Adderall that has a shorter half life and is less commonly abused for a couple of reasons.
You might have better luck with getting a prescription for one of those two if your doctor isn't willing to give you the good stuff.
What med?
Elvanse. I think it might be called Vyvanse in Murica.
Nice to know, I've been wanting to get back on that one. I'm detoxing from antidepressants at the moment, and plan to start back ADHD meds soonish.
what's "yaknow"?
I've never seen a real yak (in person) neither now nor any other time
I was saying Yak Now
smells like yaknow in here
who's steve jobs?
oh look, it's a post about me
pristiq and rits gang wya?
Taking the limitless pill that turns off 10% of my brain so I can focus on doing my work reports.
For me it was first really awesome, I had suddenly way more time (I don’t feel time normally straight and sometimes I kinda freezed in place thinking stuff without really realising), after about two weeks, I realised what tasks and actions I always wanted or had to do but neglected as they faded away in my neurodivergence brain, they don’t do that, while I am on medication. But that let to a an overload and I had burn out symptoms for two weeks. Since yesterday, I feel awesome after a break of medication in the weekend (I suppose my sender neurons where too empty from a MD trip and because of medication the refill process of the botebstoffe was too slow.. who knows, but in the end, I think, it had a positive after effect after all.