One nice thing to keep in mind about these drugs is that the majority (the stimulants) function on an as needed basis. That is to say, unlike an anti-depressant

One nice thing to keep in mind about these drugs is that the majority (the stimulants) function on an as needed basis. That is to say, unlike an anti-depressant or cholesterol medication which depends on daily usage over a long period of time, the stimulant medication can be directed at a block of time as little as 5 or 6 hours. If you find that it negatively impacts your creativity or that it just doesn't make you feel like you, you can use it only for those occasions when you especially need to sit still/focus/etc.. A therapist friend of mine doesn't take her meds on days when she sees patients. She does take them when she has to catch up on all the paper work that she lets accrue. What's more, there's a nice little truism that comes up from time to time around here that just because something feels like work, that doesn't mean it's actually productive. I think the same might be true of creativity. Within the first hour of taking my first medicine, I had a kind of fuzzy discomfort at how quiet my brain was. I'm used to having a flood of disparate ideas and impressions. Having that slew of noise in my head may occasionally yield some creative product that otherwise would be lost, but by the same token, I often will find a creative thread that I am excited about only to have it slip away as some other tangent jumps in front of it in my mind's eye.