Stimulant false hope | ADHD Information

The meds suck. We need to learn to take responsibility of our actions, and we can be helped to do so from an early age.
early intervention and an education system that accomodates for different learning styles is what we need. we also need as a society to better accept people with differences.
So get our kids off the meds, and give them a sense of self respect and self acceptance. yep I hear most of this,,,,dexies can steal your life away, make your neck like concrete, and drive u into the ground, most doctors don't give a crap about havign to creativly think about the individual. they just feed you pills, come back in a few months and we will see if your whole life of dysfuction has miraculously fixed itself.
the you that makes you special is gone and u cant eat, cant sleep, cant relate to others, loose the social adaptability that got you thru beign a complete chaotic freak,
at night when your lying awake, feeling shrunken from starvation you can see for a thousand miles, this time you tell yourself all those insights when you wake up in the mornign you will act on them.....mornign comes and you only just got to sleep, get up. 2 eyes like black holes in your head, the crazed madman staring at u in the mirror isnt you, and all those things you saw as clear as day while you lying there, are gone. strap yourself in, take your meds, another day.

Thing is with dex is that for some of us the every day use is poison. its a stimulant, it causes muscle tightness, the neck cops it the worst. and you need to sleep and eat. So either stop taking it (sounds liek u have ) OR take it differently.
sporadicaly, when you need to get things done, specially for me when I need to spew ideas out on paper. For some reason I find a computer screen makes the over stimulation and neck problems MUCH worse, I google my life away. so use paper, map out step by step ideas for changing your life. then the hard bit, act on them.

You sound crazed, like me on a bad day. square peg>round hole. it will be ok.
effexor helped me a great deal. more norepinepherine that just seretonin, so u dont have the nailed on fake happy grin that makes u feel like your living in a bubble.

and don't be so hard on yourself, take up a sport, preferably a dangerous one ;)
like spiderman style rock fishing or hang gliding, downhill moutain biking, something to make you feel alive.
It will be ok.

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Drug companies do know the truth. But if it makes your company billions and ya can live very richly? So what about longterm. People, short term meds are crap! better to live in ignorance and adaption than end up much worse than before. (Quote from Nev777)

This is my point to my kids school this crap is harmfull but they just keep trying and trying to convince me to drug my baby girl who is now 6yrs old. I always say there has got to be a better way to get her to focus, and relax. They even bring other parents whos children have been on drugs for ADD, ADHD, ODD whatever to try and get me to change my mind. Not gonna happen so why bother putting me into defence mode only makes me no longer hear what you have to say. Not only is it our job to help our kids but the schools/others involved jobs as well. I was never on drugs for the same things she dones and I will not put her on them either. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the meds out there. Take care and God Bless.

Crackling neck, neck cramps, fatigue, apathy, daydreaming, loss of brain function, etc. This has been going on for months. Can this really be all there is to life? Never had an trully loving relationship. Always blown it by my daydreaming beliefs. Rollup, rollup see the 34 year old male living with his mother at the back of the house. Lost his job. Lost some money. His last friendly relationship ended with her getting a restrainment order. YOU guessed it daydreaming reality. Oblivious to my own misfortune. Lovable Wizard of Oz stupendous emails without the clue to realize what nonsence i was writting. Yes stupidity at its most people. How to turn back time. But why would i?For i could only be certain to repeat stupidity again. I feel a lot better now than i was back a few months ago. However when your not better then you will not know your not better.

Withdrawl? Another illness?? Depletion of dopamine or noradrenalin? Too much of these? Sleep debt? Dehydration? Co2 gas blood levels? etc,etc,etc Which is it of these? or maybe not. Doctors dont know. Psychiatrist dont know. Neck cramps and we dont know. Maybe youve picked up Tourettes syndrome from your dexamphetamine? Maybe ,maybe, maybe.

I think the drug does not work longterm. It then dumps you too its lowest low after depleting the body of nutrients, sleep, hydration, etc. You become the worst that you could possibly be. For before you had sleep, hydration, nutrients and a working drug. At the end all these are gone and your left with nothing except a new illness.

Im on Edronax right now. A noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor type antidepressant. Yeah right on!!

I know this message sucks and is not positive but it is the truth. I wont put fresh cream over a bad cake.

I hope this just lightens to others to be weary of "JUST"meds to treat adhd. If you read close enough youll find a majority of people find the meds lose steam med to long term. Zombie and another illness and loss of job and loss of money and move back home and loss of friends and loss of hope is what i achieved from ADHD medication. Right on! Shore Doc ill try these stimulants.

Wow, whatever you're taking it's time to back off.

I wasnt taking anything when i wrote this. At night i feel better.

Maybe im thinking its stimulant withdrawal.

Or maybe its just the peace and silence of the night time.

Hey Nev

I'm 21 and in Aus as well, you can Pm me if you like.

A med is not a magic pill to fix everything. It takes a lot of work. Maybe you are not responding to what you are on. Or perhaps you need to find a different doc who will take a new approach or try some cognitive therapy. I'm guessing you are on an SSRI- often the most successful medication is a stimulant eg. Ritalin with an SSRI. Often ADD and depression go hand in hand- I know my ADD only got diagnosed after I had severe depression for 8 years.

I think it's actually good you have family to support you. You have to be willing to ask for help and support in order to get better. It's long and it's tough but you can make a go of it if you choose. It starts with small things every day until eventually you have one good day...and things start rolling.

Use your being unemployed to decide what you really want. Get a pen and paper and write as it helps to visualise. Maybe in time you'll decide the job wasn't for you, or what you need to do to make it work. You can get disability benefits while you are not working which helos to ease the financial burden.

Anyway, I hope this has helped a little and you can write to me anytime you need a chat.