Depending on your situation try a week or two off the meds just to see what it’s like. Personally when I was prescribed medication in high school it was because I was consistently falling asleep in class. As such I really thought that was the only value I got out of the meds ( I.e. I didn’t do homework because I thought it was dumb but I needed the meds to stay awake through classes).
Once I got out of school I assumed I didn’t need the meds anymore and for the most part that was fine. I could just stand up during long meetings and I got my work done. It didn’t hurt that I was at a pretty small company and they never confronted me about reading lots of manga during the day (got through one piece that year).
However, though the troubles of my relationship at the time, struggling at a new job, and trying to lead a more fulfilling life doing more than watching tv and playing overwatch most days, I realized that I was constantly fighting myself to do anything more than the basest recreation and life necessities.
I only take 7.5mg of non-XR adderall a day but it makes a huge difference in being able to complete tasks at work and at home.
It’s easy to skirt by with ADHD even in our capitalist-hellscape (I’ve rarely missed major deadlines through stress alone) but to survive the dystopia AND enjoy your life and excel, the medication has proved necessary.
Idk about your psychiatrist but mine is basically a pill vending machine and if it was purely up to him I’d probably had a script for 30mg xr with a 5mg “booster.” My advice is try low doses if you want to avoid the amphetamine feels and once you’ve been on it for a couple months, take a few weeks off and see if you can notice a difference in your executive function.
From my experience, taking high doses of ADHD meds (or taking them in the line format) will still make a person with ADHD “speedy.” However that speediness I still helpful for getting things done (maybe not done well though). I would never recommend getting to that state to study (retention likely very low) but I definitely got a handful of college lab reports done in that state.
But also don’t forget lots of people are just looking for an easy fix for lacking understanding or work ethic. The difference for someone with ADHD is their work ethic isn’t a simple matter of discipline and the line between undisciplined and ADHD is often hard to spot.
“We don’t know what to look for” What utter dogshit. I work in environmental testing and it’s really not hard to blanket test soil samples for pretty much anything we currently recognize as “bad.”
They don’t want to spend the money on testing only to lose more money when they can’t sell their product.
Dignified gentleman
Yeah harddrive is tech onion
They accidentally let a peasant doctor run things for a few years
Always made the game feel so “adult” to me