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(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons). I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not fi

(Posting on throwaway for obvious reasons). I was on Adderall for mild ADHD for 10 months in 2016. Software Engineers in my late 20s. I found that I was not finishing any of my side projects. Was working (and still do) for a FAANG. Consulted a real doc i.e Psychiatrist in San Francisco and he diagnosed me with very mild ADHD Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) Apparently this is quite common in adults these days, esp. in high intensity brain-work related professions like Software Engineering, Finance / Wall Street and such. My prescribed dosage was 5 mg / day of Adderall, the lowest possible dose. I was very concerned about long term side-effects and the doc assured me that it was perefectly safe. He said that it's not the same as crystal meth like the media would have you believe. In my last outing , I mentioned the "Take my Pills" netflix documentary and his take was that the documentary featured extremes cases of very high dosages (the 3 people featuered were on atleast 50 mg / day, = 10x my dosage) and also that 2 of the 3 didn't have any ADHD or ADD symtoms - the football player and the girls in school. Now for the effects, I can say it's incredible. The first day I felt lazor like focus. I walked into work, and finished a javascript library that I'd been stuck on for days, in like 4 hours. I even helped a super-star Russian coder fix a nagging complex multi-threaded bug. I didn't (and still don't feel) "high" from it. What I feel is extremely sharp focus, like I notice very small things out of order and correct them, in codebase and outside in my daily life. In the first month or so, I also got lot of "life-things" that I'd be procrastinating on done, like I did my TRUST, Living Will etc.

throwawayaddy 8y ago
(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing, launched 3 more, killed 3 that were going nowhere. I am now very satisfied mentally with my situation, do not procrastinate, and am making about 1000$ per month across all the side-projects. These projects were more for learning and keeping up to date, so money is not a concern for me, completion is (/ was) Word of caution: I did as my doc about micro-dosing LSD. He gave me a very stern warning. According to him, LSD, even in micro-doses, "fries" the your serotonin production network in the brains and destroys neurons permanently. He strongly advised me to not try it even once. And for those looking for Adderall or LSD, I would advice you to consult a Psychiatrist, if you believe you have ADHD. For people that don't have ADHD, Adderall, Ritalin etc don't work, and they end up getting addicted on high doses and land on documentaries like "Take my Pill". LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it.
- Seksbaht 8y ago
  OK champ
- barbs 8y ago
  > LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it. That's a big load of FUD if I've ever heard it
  - throwawayaddy 8y ago
    As far as I know, there is just 1 swiss psychiatrist in the WHOLE WORLD, who is allowed to LEGALLY PRESCRIBE LSD > VICE: You're the only person in the world with this permission to administer LSD for therapeutic treatment, right? > Peter Gasser: Yes, correct. Interestingly, my friend Dr. Peter Oehen lives nearby and he does the same thing with MDMA. He got permission for MDMA treatment with compassionate use. And Dr. Torsten Passie [a psychiatrist in Germany] is trying to get permission to use Bromo-LSD for treating cluster headache, but he has not been able to get permission from the German authorities. See "Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients" :====> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doctor-legally-allowed-to-use-lsd-on-his-patients-111 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doct... Now, prove your allegations of FUD.
- throwawayaddy 8y ago
  (Continued again...) I'm still on 5 mg of Adderall and have not noticed any bad side-effects, with the exception that I wake up a couple of times at night, and as long as I don't open my eyes when I'm aware that I just woke up, I promptly go back to sleep. I take 3 to 5 days "off" once every other week, like my Doc advised me to, in order to prevent my tolerance from increasing, and needing more mgs / day. I do have a couple of friends, in their early 20s, who were diagnosed with ADHD recently, and are on higher doses. They both work for startups in SF, 1 at BitFlyer and another at some SaaS startup in the Workshop Cafe building. They both say that they need it to "get in the zone" and get the gruntwork in startup world done. I am not aware of widespread use of stimulants like Modafinil or Adderall or Ritalin in the startup world here in SF. But like others have stated, it's somewhat of a tabboo to speak about usage, because, in 1 sense, it "exposes" you and your collegues will never look at you the same way as they'll think you are "cheating" using a "performance enhancer" drug, which in some ways, are what Modafinil , Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants are.

throwawayaddy 8y ago

(Continued. HN is limiting my posts for whatever algo reason) My side-project procrastination was the main reason I decided to see a Psychiatrist. Before Adderall, I had about 8 different side-projects in various states of progress, with a couple hosted and launched, but I was doing nothing to market and grow them. Now, a couple of years later, I have successfully grown the 2 that were launched and were languishing, launched 3 more, killed 3 that were going nowhere. I am now very satisfied mentally with my situation, do not procrastinate, and am making about 1000$ per month across all the side-projects. These projects were more for learning and keeping up to date, so money is not a concern for me, completion is (/ was) Word of caution: I did as my doc about micro-dosing LSD. He gave me a very stern warning. According to him, LSD, even in micro-doses, "fries" the your serotonin production network in the brains and destroys neurons permanently. He strongly advised me to not try it even once. And for those looking for Adderall or LSD, I would advice you to consult a Psychiatrist, if you believe you have ADHD. For people that don't have ADHD, Adderall, Ritalin etc don't work, and they end up getting addicted on high doses and land on documentaries like "Take my Pill". LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it.

Seksbaht 8y ago
OK champ
barbs 8y ago
> LSD is only available on the "dark web" as far as I know, so you'll need to use TOR and Bitcoin. It's also shady and you have to purchase a "Tester Kit" (who knows if that tester kit is also legit?!). Don't do it. That's a big load of FUD if I've ever heard it
- throwawayaddy 8y ago
  As far as I know, there is just 1 swiss psychiatrist in the WHOLE WORLD, who is allowed to LEGALLY PRESCRIBE LSD > VICE: You're the only person in the world with this permission to administer LSD for therapeutic treatment, right? > Peter Gasser: Yes, correct. Interestingly, my friend Dr. Peter Oehen lives nearby and he does the same thing with MDMA. He got permission for MDMA treatment with compassionate use. And Dr. Torsten Passie [a psychiatrist in Germany] is trying to get permission to use Bromo-LSD for treating cluster headache, but he has not been able to get permission from the German authorities. See "Meet the Only Doctor in the World Legally Allowed to Use LSD to Treat Patients" :====> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doctor-legally-allowed-to-use-lsd-on-his-patients-111 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppxx97/meet-the-only-doct... Now, prove your allegations of FUD.
throwawayaddy 8y ago
(Continued again...) I'm still on 5 mg of Adderall and have not noticed any bad side-effects, with the exception that I wake up a couple of times at night, and as long as I don't open my eyes when I'm aware that I just woke up, I promptly go back to sleep. I take 3 to 5 days "off" once every other week, like my Doc advised me to, in order to prevent my tolerance from increasing, and needing more mgs / day. I do have a couple of friends, in their early 20s, who were diagnosed with ADHD recently, and are on higher doses. They both work for startups in SF, 1 at BitFlyer and another at some SaaS startup in the Workshop Cafe building. They both say that they need it to "get in the zone" and get the gruntwork in startup world done. I am not aware of widespread use of stimulants like Modafinil or Adderall or Ritalin in the startup world here in SF. But like others have stated, it's somewhat of a tabboo to speak about usage, because, in 1 sense, it "exposes" you and your collegues will never look at you the same way as they'll think you are "cheating" using a "performance enhancer" drug, which in some ways, are what Modafinil , Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants are.