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You make some good points, but demonstrate a lack of understanding of ADHD and the large, non-placebo affect therapeutic doses (eg low) doses have on those with
by bitexploder 10y ago
You make some good points, but demonstrate a lack of understanding of ADHD and the large, non-placebo affect therapeutic doses (eg low) doses have on those with ADHD. Also many who have ADHD and take stimulants for a period (months or years) are often permanently improved. Dont write off your self medication as non-trivial. It gave you the space to gain the coping skills you needed and this is a clinically observed effect in classic ADHD patients, not jusy people who think theynhave ADHD.
Sure some groups may abuse it a bit but the good it does for true ADHD sufferers is probably more than sufficient to make it okay for the mich lower effect it has on non ADHD sufferers.
- zkms 10y ago> Dont write off your self medication as non-trivial. It gave you the space to gain the coping skills you needed and this is a clinically observed effect in classic ADHD patients, not jusy people who think theynhave ADHD. mmmmm yes I concur, this is also definitely a thing, medication helped me gain coping skills as well, my experience definitely wasn't just a case of "take a shitton of amphetamines and lose all self-awareness and desire to improve myself"
- bitexploder 10y agoThe right therapeutic level of dosing can do great things. If your brain is stingy with dopamine (due to a variety of causes) just the right size dose of amphetamines to get the dopamine up to "normal" levels does the trick. I think it is why so many ADHD sufferers that become really successful at managing it become runners/distance athletes. The regular 5+ hrs of running is just another way to squeeze the dopamine and such out of our brains :)