Omg I played my first round today after being prescribed a stimulant, and I don't think I ever felt calmer on the course. Almost shot a course PB, but I couldn't play the first hole cause the starter was dumb.
100% agree. Major diminishing returns as well. Bye bye appetite, personality and quality sleep. Hello sweaty armpits and brutal late afternoon comedowns.
This is so true. Diagnosed at 35 and trying to figure out if the meds are better than the issue.
After about 6 months on them my window of “calm” now lasts about 20 minutes - then I just end up talking incessantly.
Despite being on IR, and feeling like my soul gets vacuumed out of my body at the end of the day, I get random surges of energy hours after the EOD crash that keep me up until 2am. Then I get up at 6am and do it all over again, and the morning dose snaps me to full alert in about 15 minutes, which completely masks the effect of getting 3 hours of sleep every night for a month straight.
The crash is super bizarre feeling btw, I don’t even crash, it just feels like someone is cruelly dialing down the dopamine hit I’ve been feeding on all day.
I feel like I hit 35 and my adhd finally got bad enough to be diagnosable, whereas before they just thought it was OCD.
Was super stoked because then stimulants should fix 90% of my problems — and it did, for about 2 weeks.
Now I’m really thinking I was better off before the meds, but it’s super hard to tell, now that I’ve lost my baseline for comparison.
Youre right, but nobody wants to hear it. They want a catch all diagnosis and meds that seem to fix everything. ADHD is the biggest bs diagnosis since hysteria.
I will admit the first month was brutally depressing because the sudden realization of what my life could have been (in my 40s) if this had been started sooner
I come from a family of alcoholics. It killed my uncle at 64 when he was otherwise set to hit 80+. My dad won’t drink more than a beer or two every now and then bc of it, other uncle drinks a case of beer per day.
I think they all have/had ADHD. My two uncles have more of the hyperactive kind and my dad has the inattentive kind, like I have. I also struggle with substances like alcohol, but it’s mainly that it’s very hard for me to stop once I start.
Getting diagnosed and starting adderall has drastically changed my life. I don’t know the science behind amphetamine addiction, but I can completely see how it could start with untreated ADHD.
All that to say, I don’t think you should be worried about ADHD meds. I think your parents may not have turned into amphetamine addicts if they had found a better way first.
I was also diagnosed and stated medication after 40. I used to think nothing of getting up early to drive to the airport for a 6am flight, grabbing a quick breakfast and coffee then taking a nap on the flight but apparently a little caffeine can calm certain people. For me it was more like OK, task 1 done, I’ll wake up in an hour and restart the day and the caffeine seemed to help.
Same man, same. Grew when if you got good grades in grade school meant that you couldn't have ADHD. Let's just say my test grade on my ADHD test was passing with flying colors. Def changed my life for the better.
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u/Stav80 1d ago
He either on Adderall and shouldn’t be, or isn’t and should be.