re: Those who are diagnosed with ADD/ADHD...

I've taken adderal and Concerta. I had more trouble eating with concerta and it made me a bit edgier. Has anyone tried anything that they preferred over adderal?

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Focus is a choice but go ahead and keep believing you are a slave to your brain chemistry. I reject that philosophy

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This is hilarious

Go touch a hot stove burner and see if you can stop your hand from pulling away. If you can't.. you're a slave to your brain chemistry too

Replace ADD/Vyvanse with diabetes/insulin and you people would sound pretty fricking ignorant telling everyone else how their biochemistry problems are just an illusion and could be overcome with dedication.

Ever think if you've managed to "just cope with it" then maybe you were one of those people who didn't really have it in the first place? You know, that you were one of those people you always claim are over diagnosed? Just a thought.

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I've taken adderal and Concerta. I had more trouble eating with concerta and it made me a bit edgier. Has anyone tried anything that they preferred over adderal?

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I made the switch to Vyvanse at the advice of my psychiatrist about 3-4 years ago and haven't looked back since. It is essentially the same drug as adderal (same active ingredients) but it uses a different delivery mechanism. I find I'm able to eat a normal amount during the day.

Just curious, of all the Aderral (or other add meds) prescribed users in this thread, what is your diet like?

For those with kids on add meds, what is your childs diet ?

That's the beauty of amphetamines: we don't need to eat.

I lived in Europe for a long time and there ADD was treated by eating a healthier diet. Very small percentage of cases are prescribed meds for ADD, at least for children...

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Just curious, of all the Aderral (or other add meds) prescribed users in this thread, what is your diet like?

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I eat healthy at least 5 days a week, more or less eating what I want on the weekends. Eat high protein diet rotating carbs on workout days and fats on off days. I play basketball on my off days.

Workout during lunch at work too. Not for everyone, but amphetamines work great with intermittent fasting

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lived in Europe for a long time and there ADD was treated by eating a healthier diet. Very small percentage of cases are prescribed meds for ADD, at least for children...

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Diet and exercise are proven to be greatly effective for most adults. Even with the medication, it is necessary.

There's a lot of stuff that helps ADHD outside of the medication. I have my watch set to vibrate every 10 minutes to bring my attention back to my work

To do lists are a must, but an action plan needs to go along with it. The biggest key is a constant system of immediate consequences.

It's a time management issue first and foremost. There's some great videos out there on YouTube.


And sleep is the most important factor imo. One of the reasons many medicate is to try and get their sleep schedule more regular.

No idea.

I do know that some research suggests to constantly drink sugary drinks if you're trying to stimulate the frontal lobe. Not healthy though in the long run

So it could be that your brain isn't using the sugar from the carbs as it's primary source. That's my very uninformed and non-expert opinion, which is probably complete BS.

My pill kicked in if you can tell

I feel sorry for everyone in this thread who feels like they got unlucky somehow with a brain that wasn't setup to concentrate and pay attention. Like everyone is so lucky, and I have to take these pills to compete. That's terrible. It's wrong, but its (I assume) a terrible condition or place to come from.

I found myself close to failing out of LSU, after not having to study in high school, but I fought against it with plain ole dumb determination. I stood up in class (I always say in the back) when I felt my mind slipping, I stayed up all night a couple nights a week studying (since I was terribly inefficient at it) and I just brute force shoved it all in. Mind you, I never turned into a great student, but I learned a shite ton about myself and I, most often than not, easily passed some of the hardest classes at LSU.

I think growing up my classmates considered me to be one of the lucky ones that you all consider to have the correct brain chemistry, but the reality is that no pill could have fixed what I had to do for myself. Of course I could have been diagnosed with all things hyper active related, but in the end what would that have mattered?