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Can you cite that? You're opposing mainstream medication usage all over this thread, so it's hard to take each comment as gospel.
by JBReefer 10y ago
Can you cite that? You're opposing mainstream medication usage all over this thread, so it's hard to take each comment as gospel.
- viewer5 10y agoAs a sufferer myself, what he's claiming is along the lines of 'stopping blood loss has never been proven to meaningfully affect health'. The difference on and off meds is night and day, between 'brain-scrambled mess' and 'actual thinking human being'
- khed 10y agoI also was diagnosed with ADHD and took Ritalin then Adderall for years. I stopped taking them in medical school and actually got better grades. Regardless of my personal experience or your personal experience the evidence does not show that stimulants increase grades in the medium or long term.
- khed 10y agoSSRIs don't have clinically relevant effects. The following study is a review article. It cites most of the meta analysis the are relevant. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/?report=classic https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/?report... I am still trying to find the studies that indicate that stimulants might increase high school drop out. But there is pretty clear consensus that they don't increase grades over the long term. https://www.nber.org/papers/w19105 https://www.nber.org/papers/w19105