If you have ADHD, never quit taking your meds

Best thing I ever did for me personally. Feeding kids meth makes them crazy, go figure. I seriously thing taking Adderall every day fried something in my brain when it was developing. I flushed them all down the toilet when I was like 19.

Most over-diagnosed thing ever.

Adderall isn’t meth. Stop calling it that.

Everyone reacts to medications differently, especially when it comes to brain chemistry. There are a number of treatment options for ADHD besides Adderall. Other stimulants, non-stimulants, even non-medication options like behavioral therapy and exercise. Most people will mix and match to eventually figure out what works for them specifically.

Adderall didn’t work for me either, and I spent a long time trying to make it work before I switched to a non-stimulant that was great until it eventually stopped having any effect on me aside from intense nausea. After losing my job, I went off meds entirely; it was too much hassle to get on another controlled substance, and what was the point anyways if I wasn’t working.

Long story short, I’m working again and taking a different stimulant now that I pretty much owe my life to. Trying to keep up with basic life stuff; not just work but chores, bills, projects, getting up in the morning, etc; is hard enough for me even on medication. Doing it with only talk therapy as treatment was a living nightmare.

I’m glad you’re doing better and found a way to manage your symptoms that works for you. Please don’t use your experience to erase ours.

Who said anything about erasing? I’m not denying that treatment can work. It didn’t for me, it might for others

But I also see my cousin’s kid getting an ADHD diagnosis and he’s 5. Medicating at that age is what I think can do some real damage.