Every screening and official diagnostic I’ve taken has me scoring max ADHD points and every time someone describes a symptom I’m left confused that other people don’t have them.
Will my personality change? I feel like being a disorganized disheveled loud interrupter is most of my personality at this point idk.
I’ve never done any stimulants beyond drinking a million coffees per day so i have some anxiety about this
Medication changed my life. My personality didn’t change, I was just more able to be myself. Idk if anyone else has mentioned it yet but the analogy I like is - with ADHD some days it feels like you’re dragging a dog around on its walk and some days you feel like you’re being dragged around by the dog. But on medication, you are the dog. You can just… do things
Something I didn’t see in any of the other comments here: irritability. Had no idea it was an ADHD thing before I got meds and it’s crazy how much less little things get to me. Or things that would sometimes piss me off but make no sense.
Like oh the sound of your voice is actually just annoying today for no reason and I’m struggling to even listen cause I just want you to shut up. It just doesn’t happen on meds and it’s really nice.
I have never taken medication in my life, so I can’t tell you. But I can tell you this:
When you’re taking drugs (for recreational purposes) for the first time, the general advice is to start with a low dosage (like, half of what is “normal”). That significantly reduces the potential to do harm, and gives you an “easy” introduction.
I don’t feel that adderall changes my personality at all. Certainly not at the low dose I take.
Concerta (a time release stimulant) gave me mood swings in high school but adderall extended release did not.
Then I tried Concerta again as an adult and the only side effect was annoyingly high amount of sweating in my feet.
annoyingly high amount of sweating in my feet
I already slip out of flip flops on a moderately warm day lmao
