re: Why are so many people prescribed adderall?

Add isn't a real disease. I know because I was diagnosed with it and took the medicine so I didn't have to study in school and now that I'm done with school I don't take it anymore

If you believe add is a real disease, your parents didn't whip you enough

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I do actually have ADD and the best way to describe it is to picture 20 tv’s on in your mind and they are on 3-4 different channels. Its someone easy to see who actually has add and who isnt bc their everyday actions arent worlds apart.

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This. I wasn't prescribed anything until I was like halfway through college. I never missed classes and always took thorough notes. It wasn't until I would get to a test and there would be sections on the test that I had zero recollection of, and no notes that I took on the section.

I've been on Vyvanse for a long time now, and it has truly been a godsend for me. I am able to stay more organized, complete tasks, and stay focused. However, I actually went to a psychologist and got thorough testing before I started on it. This definitely isn't the case for most people.

ETA: I also don't get wired or jittery on it. It has a major calming effect on me, and allows me to sit still, which I could never do.

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GFY

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Wow. That said, I love to party on the stuff. It's gonna fuel my weekend if all goes well.

You can find the answer here

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1. I'm older than you.

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man i thought you were dead by now. you are older than dirt.

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those that truly have ADD. Im not even getting into ADHD. If you TRULY have ADD then the medication doesnt give you extra energy, make you jittery, etc.

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Correct. I have taken multiple forms of it and multiple doses of those multiple forms. I hated every single one of them. People used to ask me, why, if I really had add did I not get an adderhol prescription. And I always had to explain that it doesn't effect me the way it does them.

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do actually have ADD and the best way to describe it is to picture 20 tv’s on in your mind and they are on 3-4 different channels. Its someone easy to see who actually has add and who isnt bc their everyday actions arent worlds apart. 

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I'm a creative person. I enjoy problem solving and playing music equally. I wake up in the morning already at 100mph, I talk way too fast, and I have way too much energy.

Everytime I took whichever God forsaken devil pill they put me on I became a lifeless zombie with no energy and no thought process. Sure, it's a fact that the 2 years I was trying out the different medications and doses I had by far my best grades of my life. But I also had no personality, no creativity, and life was just too fricking quiet. I could read 100 pages in a night and recite them all to you and Ace every test, but I couldn't play my guitar or solve a logic game to save my life. Your right. ADD is like have 20 multichannel TVs on in your head. But I spent years of my youth learning how to deal with and channel that energy and thought process into ways of being productive instead of becoming dependent on a pill.

I'm not saying one way is better than the other. I'm not better than anyone else. But you could never pay me enough money to take or advocate for those fricking pills.

There are drawbacks to not being on the medication and I'll occasionally slip into a bout of extreme procrastination or erratic behavior, but I'll take that all day every day over the depressing silence and zombie like rote approach to life I got on those medications.

Life has ups and it has downs. You learn to deal with them. You learn from failure and success. You face times of adversity and you enjoy prosperity.

You can't enjoy the good without the bad. And taking pills to dull all the bad will just dull all the good with it.

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Girlfriend takes it religiously and it's definitely concerning seeing how different she acts when she's on it versus off it.

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Pics?

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Lazy parents started this shite.

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I don't think so.

It has very real and clear effects on people in the short term. (That's why the military uses "go pills" Cite). Doctors tell them to try it out and if it doesn't work they can always stop. It always works... so they listen to the doctors. Kids that take it's grades will improve. They'll get into better colleges. The parent's are only trying to help give their kids the best shot at success.


What I think get lost in the mix... is at what cost? When do they get off the meds? Have these drugs been studied for daily use for over 20/30 years?

Wow