Need someones help | ADHD Information
I began taking adderall when I was in 9th grade. I'm not exactly sure
what dose I started at but I'm pretty sure it was around 10mg. As I
went through high school, I had a teacher that would suggest to my
parents that my dose be increased because I seemed to hyperactive in
her class. I ended up with a dose of 30mg of XR when I was in 11th
grade. At the time I didn't really think much of this, but I was
kind of pushing to have the higher dose, for reasons I really don't
know. I probably didn't need this high of a dose, and there was a time
frame when I would, much to my shame now, snort the pills in the
morning just to get a little extra out of the drug. During the time I
was on the higher doses, I wasn't really eating breakfast, and I had
gym classes in the morning where I would lift weights or play sports,
either way exerting myself. By the time lunch came, I didn't have much
of an appetite, so I usually couldn't eat a whole lot. Because of all
this, I would be in the worst depression when I got home from school,
and also completely fatigued. It didn't take me too long to get fed up
with this, so I stopped taking Adderall in hopes that I could balance
my self back out. Today Im 18 and in college, but I have just recently
started suffering from some severe anxiety and depression again. I fear
that adderall may have had an adverse effect on my brain, mostly
because I wasn't taking care of myself, and that I'm going to have to
live like this rest of my life now. My paranoia of this whole thing is
what made me come to this site and share this. I'm almost afraid I
might have developed a slight amphetemine psychosis from the time I was
perscribed to the drug.
Should I be worrying about this? and is there anyone else that has had a similar experience with the drug?
One other thing is that I have been feeling very de-attached lately
along with the depression/anxiety, and sometimes I see flashes of dots
on the outsides of my vision. These are really adding to the anxiety
that I have been feeling.
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I know you said that you have anxiety, but you have ever had an actual panic attack since you have been in college?? Have you ever had anxiety or panic attacks before now? The reason I ask is because for most people, when they have a panic attack "out of the blue" they try to assosiate it with something to make sense of it.
" I fear that adderall may have had an adverse effect on my brain, mostly because I wasn't taking care of myself, and that I'm going to have to live like this rest of my life now"
That would be a good example of what I am talking about. I may be jumping to conclusions about the panic thing, but I have a panic/anxiety disorder myself. It took me a very long time to figure out that my mind was my worst enemy.
Could this be the problem?