Ugh...this hit me so hard in the feels man. I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about. Am I talking to myself? Granted, my struggles are different from yours (more impulse control issues, difficulty sleeping, incredibly rigid routine), but all the sentiments you expressed up there are all things I’ve said to other…

Thanks! I will look into that. I’ve already cut my dosage down to 1/4 of what I used to take, and it’s by a different manufacturer (idk what happened to the orange oval-shaped ones, but they stopped being available where I live). I have a naturally quicker heartbeat, but taking these makes my resting heart rate…

Thanks for writing this. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and came here to defend Adderall because it was absolutely necessary for me to function in school (I was diagnosed sometime in elementary school). It took a couple of different medications before we decided that Adderall was the right one, but I probably…

God, you just reminded me of a programme that made me nearly cry last year. It was an episode of Educating Essex (or one of the follow-up schools) where this kid (probably about 11) kept speaking up and zoning out and such. And, watching it as someone who was diagnosed with ADHD thirteen years ago, I just saw a…

I have a really difficult time with “time” as well. Because of that, I’m either late to everything, or really, really (like hours) early because I’m overcompensating. Plus, I don’t seem to have a circadian rhythm anymore, either. It’s always been delayed by a few hours, but for the past few years I haven’t had a sleep…

Signing on as another one of the tribe.

Seriously!! You know what Adderall does for me? It stops me from getting into more car accidents.

My best friend has failed out of school twice, despite being perfectly intelligent, due to ADD issues. She thrives in a hectic environment and can’t handle long periods of sitting and studying. She doesn’t like the side effects of medication and has been off and on with it since high school. I feel for you, and her,…

Diagnosed at 25 but in retrospect it should have been so obvious. I drew on everything. Girls are often quiet at ADHD, though. I’ve always just brought myself something to do with my hands to keep myself from going crazy. It’s so hard dealing with a lifetime of shame and confusion as to why you could never finish…

Does caffeine really help? I was diagnosed as a kid (asthma/allergies, ADHD and dyscalculia, oh glob, high school was a foggy, torturous hell full of STEM and PE/sportsball is the only thing worth doing) but my parents refused to let me get any sort of prescription for ... anything, unfortunately-and flunked out of…

I have such a complicated relationship with my ADHD and its medication... One the one hand, I love being able to function normally and be able to read something all the way through, or listen to a full conversation. On the other hand, my medication makes my heart race all the time, and I have this fear that is is…

The anxiety was certainly a symptom of mine. Essentially, I had a homemade patchwork of coping mechanisms that were inefficient and sucking my brainpower. I don’t know if the anxiety was caused by the ADD or my coping mechanisms, but they certainly fed into each other and I was an anxious wreck. Eventually, it spilled…

yeaaaah this rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. ADHD medication is already a super highly controlled substance in a lot of states and is really hard to get for the people that need it. My boyfriend has terrible ADHD that almost ruined his life before he got on medication but he can only get single 30-day scripts…

It’s not automatically a bad thing but it is vastly, VASTLY overprescribed, especially amongst people under the age of 25. I know several people, diagnosed with ADHD, who simply sell their prescriptions, and when I used to work in a pediatrics office we’d see parents come in and demand a new prescription because their…

As someone with ADHD who never got meds, I have to agree. While a lot can (and should!) be done with diet and exercise, it’s just fucking painful sometimes for me.

Yes. This. I have a mixture of ADHD and Systemic Lupus which can cause cognitive issues and I wasn’t diagnosed and properly treated until I was 25 and about to enter my BSc in Health Sciences.

Agreed! I hate the constant stigma of it. People automatically act like you’re on some sort of illicit substance. I failed out of college after 2 years after I coasted through highschool. Finally got diagnosed in my early 20s and sailed right through my bachelors degree with an almost perfect GPA. I went off for a few…

Amen. Can people please demonstrate a little nuance when writing about ADHD and its treatment? Not to mention the upsides, like enhanced creativity, hyperfocus, increased physical and mental energy, etc. Or the interesting collision of gender socialization and neurochemistry in explaining how ADHD can present so…

I was coming here to say basically all of this. ADHD SISTERS 4 LYFE!!!!

Yeah, agreed that controlled substances shouldn’t taste like candy. That is asking for trouble.