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I find my compulsion towards videogames is decreased. Not eliminated, but I feel much less compelled to be playing all the time.
by nosignono 1y ago
I find my compulsion towards videogames is decreased. Not eliminated, but I feel much less compelled to be playing all the time.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI'm curious if this affects smartphone usage. E.g., "compulsive" feed-checking and doom scrolling.
- garbawarb 1y agoI wonder how it compares to Adderall.
- nosignono 1y agoAdderall produces a very, very different experience and is prescribed to address a very, very different root cause.
- slavik81 1y agoHowever, amphetamines such as Adderall were also sometimes prescribed for weight loss. I'm surprised it was done so rarely before Ozempic was a thing. They were quite effective.
- ses1984 1y agoThe side effects of adderall are pretty bad. If I'm on a dose that's high enough to suppress my appetite, then I get a very bad crash in the evening. I start to feel like if I want to enjoy life after work, I need to take another adderall to feel normal. That disrupts sleep, and then things start to get really bad.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoThis varies from person to person, but the effects mentioned above have been my personal experience as well.
- Spooky23 1y agoStimulants have well documented downsides. It’s one of the hard aspects for adults with adhd as you often need to taper as you develop heart issues.
- theshackleford 1y agoThis is not accurate outside of abusive dosages or those with pre-existing conditions and I know adult patients in their 70s and even 80s on stimulants.
- CoastalCoder 1y agoI have an Adderall prescription, although I rarely use it. Adderall lets me focus on things longer, with distractions staying in the background. If anything, Adderall makes me too focused on a task. If I were doom scrolling when Adderall kicked in, the risk is I'd continue doing it for hours.
- cm2187 1y agoThat may be a correlation without causation. Don't know if you lost much weight, but if you did, a huge benefit of losing weight is to increase the level of tonus, and suddenly activities that require no tonus (playing video games, watching TV) become less compelling relatively to other activities.