Hi,I have been diagnosed with having a little of ADHD, and my brother was diagnosed with 100% of ADHD. So I hope my little advice can help you.Whatever you decide to do, please, don't auto medicate yourself with drugs. If you feel that you need to take them, then it would be necessary to look for a professional opinion and being diagnosed again.I also remember that I saw a documentary in which it was told that sometimes people are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD while for real they have a high IQ, and these people, when they make them take drugs for ADHD, they cannot think as they should and looking tired.If coffee doesn't work, then doing exercise can, exercises like running, swimming, cycling, cardio exercises, etc, exercises which can exhaust you.
I don't have it, but I'm wondering....You quit cold turkey?
Practically no medication is without side effects, some harmless and some more severe, so it's always a question of assessing the lesser evil. When dealing with something as complex as the mind, finding a good dose or combination is often just a matter of trial and error, even with competent doctors. Doctors are also often quite unaware about the interaction of different drugs, this is a separate field of study and never quite up to date with people using so many different drugs at the same time. I think it's quite obvious that when the mind is changed by chemicals, something is always lost while something else may be gained. If you can handle what you naturally are, I personally would recommend not getting into the drugs. But not if it gets too hard and affects you life too much. Then you must be patient with the doctors and accept the fact that they do not have ready-made solutions just for you.Good to hear you're feeling better though!And of course it is normal to have better and worse days, at least if we think what happens to most people is normal. But the cycle is much more pronounced in some people and individual hormonal changes also trigger them, so some of us suffer from them more than others. One alternative to the drugs is to learn to know yourself better to be able to foresee the changes and what might be triggering the worst days.
Normally, people dont always feel the seem either. Sometimes i feel without energy too and i have to push myself into doing things too.The feel for energy also sometimes relates to what you eat/drink. Ofcourse there are things like coffee and the sugar-rich drinks that have a huge impact on your energy balance, that should be avoided drinking over one a day (or at all).@faa2010 ADHD is a huge issue in the psychiatry world at the moment, because it is hugely over-diagnosed, and you definitely dont need a high IQ to get this wrong diagnose.People are getting talked into problems, and ADHD is an easy sollution because it has vague properties and the medication have some traits always help, but which also make it sort of addicting. But the pharmaceutical companies are ofcourse very happy with this phenomenon, and do everything to encourage the ADHD diagnose.
I got into an argument with the people at the doctor's office because they insisted that I was wrong and this drug is not addictive. (Both physically and mentally, yes, amphetamine is.) Why would they lie to me? lol
I think their definition of addictive is a little different than yours. Drugs are usually considered addictive if they create a persistent, compulsive physiological need and cause physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. Many drugs can be habit forming in short term and cause changes in you both when you start and when you stop taking them, they are just not considered addictive. It's fine line often and a matter of defition.
It is very confusing to someone who is psychologically "fragile". You know, sensitive musicians. I understand that many people may actually need the drugs and maybe I was just wrongly diagnosed, so it is hard for me to see how the drugs actually work.
I did hear that's what would actually kill most people in the event of a zombie apocalypse -- lack of medical resources. The zombies knock out the pharmacies and hospitals... All those people can get medication or medical treatment. Whither and die. 10% killed by zombies. A very large percentage killed by lack of medical treatment.
Psychiatrist prescribed me this sh*t, don't take it. Do abstinence and meditation.
Hi, there! Any pianists here that used to take such prescription drugs?I recently quit taking adderall type substance which was prescribed to me, after a year of taking the highest dose. Again, it was legally scripted out to me, by my psychiatrist. After a year of being on this medication, I finally quit both the medication and the psychiatrist.I actually feel better than ever but some days I wake up feeling absolutely beat and brain-dead, completely unfocused and like I won't be doing anything today. Is this a symptom of living with ADHD or is this normal, from time to time? On days like this, even coffee and rest doesn't help.I don't need a doctor's opinion, just some friendly advice here and there. what do you do when you just can't get going in the day?
Second, there is no one size fits all -- especially when it comes to psychoactive chemicals (and that includes everything from over the counter sleep medicines to prescription drugs to magic mushrooms, including tranqs, uppers, downers, hash, booze, nicotine, etc. etc. Although some broad generalizations can be made, individuals vary over an incredibly wide spectrum on their reactions to and potential need for any of these compounds.
I have over 8 years of experience working with mental illness in hospitals. Of course, that's the extreme end of the spectrum, people who don't survive without medication. Or do survive, but at such a low level of functioning it is sad.Your no one size fits all comment is apt. But there's a corollary some people unconsciously add that is false, that there is a size for everybody. There is not. There are some things that go wrong that can't as yet be fixed. Sometimes meds improve them slightly, sometimes not at all.
And I might add to that that for some people, and some chemicals, there is no safe dose, either. Even a very small dose can be catastrophic in some cases, and be very difficult (if possible at all) to recover from.
I am starting to gain weight
If you want to avoid that, just take a look at what you are eating and research the energy values of things that you eat and drink.
Topic: quitting medications/ADHD 